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In 1918, the Johannesburg Astronomical Association was created, with RTA Innes, Union Astronomer, as President. In 1922 it was decided to merge the two Associations to form the Astronomical Society of South Africa after an invitation from the Cape Association. [2] In 1956 the name was amended to become the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa.
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The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) is the national centre for optical and infrared astronomy in South Africa. It was established in 1972. The observatory is run by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. The facility's function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics.
In 1913 he served as President of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science (SAAAS), and in 1927-1928 as President of the Astronomical Society of South Africa (ASSA). Much of his work was communicated through Edward C. Pickering, the director of the Harvard College Observatory. However, with the death of Pickering in 1919 he ...
He is a member of the Royal Society of South Africa, [19] and the International Astronomical Union. [20] He has twice been elected president of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa [21] and in 2016 was made an honorary member thereof. In 1984–89 he was editor of "Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa".
He received the DeBeers Medal [9] from the South African Institute of Physics in 1992 and the Gill Medal from the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa in 1983. [10] [11] Feast was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, [1] Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. [12]
1989: Honorary member of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa [11] 1989: An asteroid discovered in 1986 in the main belt is given the official designation (4093) Bennett after John C. Bennett. [12] After his death, the Pretoria Centre established the ASSA's annual Jack Bennett Award for contributions to astronomy and the Centre.
He also served as the president of the Astronomical Society of South Africa from 1929 to 1930. [2] Wood is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 12 numbered asteroids during 1911–1932. [4] He died in Mortimer, near Cradock, South Africa, in 1946.