# The Last Observatory

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The signal arrived on a Tuesday in October, 1897, at precisely four minutes past eleven in the evening, when the Greenwich dome was open and the great refracting telescope stood aligned with the constellation of Centaurus. Edgar Wentworth was alone in the dome, as he usually was after nine o'clock, calibrating the instrument's tracking mechanism and drinking tea from a tin cup that had long...

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