William Rutter Dawes

William Rutter Dawes (March 19 1799 – February 15 1868) was a British astronomer. He was a clergyman who made extensive measurements of double stars as well as observations of planets. He was a friend of William Lassell. He was nicknamed "eagle eye". He made extensive drawings of Mars during its 1864 opposition. In 1867, Richard Anthony Proctor made a map of Mars based on these drawings. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1855. Craters on Mars and on the Moon are named after him.

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