Plate I - Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) As it moves away from the sun

Plate II - Danebury Meteorite, estimated impact between 800 B.C - 50 B.C. 30 grams

Plate III - Danebury Meteorite (night)

Plate IV - One Mile Telescope

Plate V - Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) duel array radio telescope

Plate VI - Bay window from which Jeremiah Horrocks recorded the transit of Venus across the sun

Plate VII - Stained glass window depicting Horrocks viewing the transit of Venus in 1639

Plate VIII - The sun imaged through a helioscope with the viewing screen replaced with photographic paper

Plate IX - Lovell telescope

Plate X - St Albans Cathedral, home of Wallingfords astronomical clock and his place of work

Plate XI - Potential grave marking of Richard of Wallingford

Plate XII - Recreation of Wallingfords clock, the original being destroyed during Henry VIII’s reformation of the Abbey

Plate XIII - Mechanical drawing of Wallingfords clock, originally built in 1327

Plate XIV - M33 Galaxy. First discovered by Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654. Independently discovered and catalogued officially in 1764 by Charles Messier

Plate XV - Sir Isaac Newtons Manor, surrounded still by apple trees. Born in 1643

Plate XVI - A southern view of the stars from Sir Isaac Newtons Manor

Plate XVII - A section of Avebury Stone Circle built and altered between 2850 B.C. - 2200 B.C. Can be used to track the time of year

Plate XVIII - C/2020 F3 or ‘Comet Neowise’

Plate XIX - Barwell Meteorite, observed fall 24th December 1965 - 44 kilograms

Plate XX - M45 open star cluster and reflection nebula. First Observed by Galileo Galilei in 1610 but catalogued officially in 1771 by Charles Messier

Plate XXI - Glatton Meteorite, observed fall in 1991 - 767 grams

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