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Annie Russell Maunder, born in Strabane in 1868 and dead in 1947, mapped the quiet rhythms of the sun itself. She and her husband tracked faint stellar light through ordinary glass, proving that darkness on the telescope was not emptiness but a living signal. The Maunder Minimum still echoes in her name, a reminder that patience, not power, revealed the truth.

This commemorative plaque records: Annie Russell Maunder 1868-1947 Mathematician Pioneering Astronomer Maunder Lunar Crater Maunder Minimum born in Strabane Recorded plaque organisation: Ulster History Circle.

Annie S. D. Maunder was a pioneering astronomer and mathematician who significantly contributed to solar observation and the study of sunspots, leading to the identification of the Maunder Minimum, a period of reduced solar activity.

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