One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope

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 taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the Carte du Ciel twin astrographic refractor by Howard Grubb, Dublin.

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Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1909-211/13

Materials:: paper

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

type:: black-and-white prints (photographs) astronomical instruments and refracting telescopes

credit:: Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope

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One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope

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