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Sir David Gill was born in Aberdeen in 1843 and educated at the university there. He had an early interest in astronomy and in 1872 he took up the post of director of the Earl of Lindsay's private observatory near Aberdeen. He studied the measurements of parallax and improved on contemporary calculations for this, travelling to the southern hemisphere to observe planetary movements. He was appointed Royal Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope in 1879, where he developed the use of photography in astronomy. He returned to Britain in 1907 and died in London in 1914.
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