Cuthbert Edgar Peek

Cuthbert Peek (sitting left) and Charles Grover (standing left) - All images presented here are property of Barbara Slater

Obituary: MNRAS 62, 214-215 (1902)

Peek observed nebulae with a 6.4" Merz refractor at Rousdon Observatory, UK. He made a drawing of the Eta Carinae Nebula (NGC 3372), probably from South Africa.

 

6.4" (f/11.6) Merz refractor at Rousdon Observatory, Lyme Regis (Dorset)

Top: Rousdon Observatory in 1885; Bottom: The late Charles Grover at the 6.4" Merz refractor