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Danie Overbeek Gallery

Awards received bay Danie Overbeek

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Danie is holding the plaque confirming that a minor planet is named after him.
Source: MNASSA
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Danie Overbeek and George Nicolson receives ASSA’s highest award – the Gill Medal – from ASSA President Tony Hilton.
Source: MNASSA 56, 9&10, p 82.
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Observatory

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Danie Overbeek’s Observatory built on top of his house at Edenvale in Johannesburg.
Source: A.S.S.A. Symposium 2002: Paper 02 Mattei:  Danie Overbeek Memorial Lecture
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Twelve and a half inch homebuilt telescope. This was Danie’s principal instrument for his record amount of variable star observations.
Source: A.S.S.A. Symposium 2002: Paper 02 Mattei:  Danie Overbeek Memorial Lecture
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Overbeek with his telescope.
Source: ASSA Archives, Overbeek Collection.

Cartoons by Danie Overbeek

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The humour of Danie Overbeek.
Source: A.S.S.A. Symposium 2002: Paper 02 Mattei:  Danie Overbeek Memorial Lecture
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The humour of Danie Overbeek.
Source: A.S.S.A. Symposium 2002: Paper 02 Mattei:  Danie Overbeek Memorial Lecture