One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory

PART OF:: Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory

Made:: 1909 in Cape Town and South Africa

One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing a 7-inch Heliometer with equatorial mounting by Messrs Repsold and Sons, Hamburg. Used widely by Sir David Gill to make stellar parallax measurements from 1887 onwards.

Details

Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1909-211/1

Materials:: card

Measurements:: overall (mount): 405 x 355 x 1.5 mm

type:: photograph

credit:: Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope

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