A. Grace Cook

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Alice Grace Cook FRAS (18 February 1877 - 27 May 1958), known as Grace Cook or A. Grace Cook was a British astronomer. Cook lived in Stowmarket, Suffolk.[1] After she died she was remembered by her colleagues as a skilled and dedicated observer.[2]

Career[]

Grace Cook attended a series of lectures in astronomy given by Joseph Hardcastle in the autumn of 1909. Enthused she joined the British Astronomical Association on 22 February 1911 at the invitation of Hardcastle.[3][4] Cook observed the 7 November 1914 transit of Mercury from her observatory.[5] In January 1916 Cook was among the first group of women elected as Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society.[6] Her RAS election was proposed by W F Denning. With Joseph Alfred Hardcastle, Cook worked to identify and describe 785 New General Catalogue objects on the 206 plates of the John Franklin-Adams photographic survey.[7][8] She was renowned for her work observing meteors, and also observed naked-eye phenomena including the zodiacal light and aurorae. During World War One Cook, with Fiammetta Wilson, temporarily headed the British Astronomical Association's Meteor Section.[9] Cook observed comets and Milky Way novae and was among the first people to see V603 Aquilae, a nova discovered in June 1918.[10] This work earned her the Edward C. Pickering Fellowship from the Maria Mitchell Association in 1920–1921.[11] From 1921 to 1923 Cook was sole director of the British Astronomical Association's Meteor Section.[12] On 30 May 1922 she attended the RAS Centenary celebrations held at Burlington House where she appears in the group photograph identified as number 16.[13]

Publications[]

  • Cook, A Grace (October 1911). "Crepuscular Rays". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 22 (1): 48.
  • Cook, A Grace (December 1913). "Extraordinary Meteor Display in 1876". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 24 (3): 168.
  • Cook, A Grace (August 1914). "Light Rays in the Sky". The Observatory. 37 (477): 324–325.
  • Cook, A Grace (November 1914). "The 1914 Transit of Mercury". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 25 (2): 84–85.
  • Cook, A Grace (March 1915). "Magnitudes of Meteors". The Observatory. 38 (485): 136–142.
  • Cook, A Grace (June 1915). "Meteor Reflections". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 25 (8): 392–393.
  • Cook, A Grace (March 1916). "Twilight on Feb.3, 1916". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 26 (6): 247.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (June 1916). "Report of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 26 (8): 300–301.
  • Cook, A Grace (June 1916). "An Anthelion". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 26 (8): 309.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (October 1916). "Report of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 27 (1): 34.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (January 1917). "Reports of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 27 (3): 108–112.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (April 1917). "Reports of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 27 (6): 186.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (October 1917). "Reports of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 28 (1): 19–21.
  • Cook, A Grace; Blagg, Mary A (December 1917). "Appreciation of J A Hardcastle". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 28 (2): 71.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (1918). "Coopération interalliée en astronomie météorique". Journal des Observateurs. 2 (4): 41–42.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (February 1918). "Reports of the Observing Sections: Interim Report of the Meteoric Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 28 (4): 116–123.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (March 1918). "Meteoric Astronomy". The Observatory. 41 (524): 127–129.
  • Cook, A Grace (May 1918). "Lunar Rays". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 28 (7): 228.
  • Cook, A Grace (June 1918). "Observations of Nova Aquilæ". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 78: 569.
  • Cook, A Grace; Wilson, Fiammetta (October 1918). "Reports of the Observing Sections: Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 29 (1): 19–24.
  • Cook, A Grace (November 1920). "Two Sunsets; Nacreous Clouds and a Sun Pillar". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 31 (2): 72–73.
  • Cook, A Grace (1921). "Notes on the Meteor Showers of October and November". Popular Astronomy. 29: 67–68.
  • Cook, A Grace (February 1921). "Luminous Night Skies and Clouds: Terrestrial Ice Crystals a Possible Cause". The Observatory. 44 (561): 50–52.
  • Cook, A Grace (November 1921). "Elliptical Haloes". The Observatory. 44 (570): 334–335.
  • Cook, A Grace (January 1922). "Director of the Meteor Section". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 32 (4): 128–131.
  • Cook, A Grace; Prentice, J P M (February 1922). "Notes on Unusual Haloes". The Observatory. 45 (573): 47–51.
  • Cook, A Grace; Prentice, J P M (March 1922). "Observations of the Meteors of the ε Arietid Radiant in 1921". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 82: 309.
  • Cook, A Grace (February 1923). "The Radiant of the Orionids". The Observatory. 46 (585): 49–51.
  • Cook, A Grace (March 1923). "Observational Methods for Meteor Observers". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 33 (6): 235–237.
  • Cook, A Grace (1924). "Section for the Observation of Meteors. Report of the Section, 1922". Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association. 24: 49–82.
  • Cook, A Grace (May 1926). "The Earth's Shadow". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 36 (7): 260.
  • Cook, A Grace (May 1932). "An Interesting Old Book". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 42 (7): 264.

Further reading[]

References[]

  1. ^ Cannon, Annie J. (17 February 1921). "Report of the Astronomical Fellowship Committee". Annual Report of the Maria Mitchell Association. 19: 15–17. Bibcode:1921MMAAR..19...15C. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  2. ^ Larsen, Kristine (December 2006). "Shooting Stars: The Women Directors of the Meteor Section of the British Astronomical Association". The Antiquarian Astronomer. Society for the History of Astronomy. 3: 75–82. Bibcode:2006AntAs...3...75L.
  3. ^ "OASI: A G Cook". www.oasi.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  4. ^ "1911JBAA...21..247. Page 247". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  5. ^ "1914JBAA...25...76. Page 84". adsbit.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  6. ^ "1916MNRAS..76..195. Page 195". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  7. ^ "Franklin-Adams charts". Oxford Reference. doi:10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095833719. Retrieved 2021-10-12.
  8. ^ "1914MNRAS..74..699H Page 706". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  9. ^ "1916JBAA...27...34W Page 34". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  10. ^ Lockyer, Norman (1869). Nature. Smithsonian Libraries. [London, etc., Macmillan Journals Ltd., etc.]
  11. ^ "1920Obs....43..367. Page 372". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  12. ^ "1924MmBAA..24...49. Page 49". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  13. ^ "1922MNRAS..82..430T Page 430B". articles.adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
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