Robert T. A. Innes
British astronomer
Died when: 71 years 123 days (856 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes FRSE FRAS (10 November 1861 – 13 March 1933) was a Scottish astronomer best known for discovering Proxima Centauri in 1915, and numerous binary stars.
He was also the first astronomer to have seen the Great January Comet of 1910, on 12 January.He was the founding director of a meteorological observatory in Johannesburg, which was later converted to an astronomical observatory and renamed to Union Observatory.
He was the first Union Astronomer.Innes House, designed by Herbert Baker, built as his residence at the observatory, today houses the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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