The King’s Observatory opens for rare tours

A building in the middle of a Richmond golf club that was built for King George III to observe an astronomical event will be open later this 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 then od