Catherine_Octavia_Stevens
Catherine Octavia Stevens
British astronomer (1865–1959)
Catherine Octavia Stevens (1865-1959) was an amateur astronomer who was Director of the British Astronomical Association Meteor Section from 1905 to 1911.[1] Her primary interest was the Sun and she made drawings of sunspots using a 3 inch refractor.[1]
She joined the six month old British Astronomical Association on 27 May 1891.[2] On the 1911 census she gave her occupation as Astronomer, working for the British Astronomical Association and her address was The Plain, Foxcombe Hill, Oxford.[3], a house with an observatory at the top of Boars Hill, Oxford.[1] She lived there from 1910 to 1956.[1] In 1939 she gave her occupation as Meteorologist Astronomer.[4]