The King’s Observatory is reopening for tours

A grand building in Richmond built for King George III to observe a rare astronomical event will be open next month for tours.The large square building with a telescope observatory dome on top was built to watch the 1769 Transit of Venus, an event which had seen Captain James Cook sent to the other side of the world to observe it from a better location, while at the same time nabbing a few continents for the crown.
It later became a government building, and oddly, a company office. The King&rsqu