One ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees

One ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees [mounted with Inv No. 1888-158 and shares the same case] with brass mountings and adjustments to minimum angle divation. Used with a 10-inch refracting telescope with equatorial mount by Cooke at the South Kensington Solar Physics Observatory and is now at the Norman Lockyer Observatory at Sidmouth, Devon.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1889-68
Materials:
glass and brass
Measurements:
length 480 mm
width 480 mm
height 400 mm
type:
spectroscope - objective prism
credit:
Hilger, Adam

Parts

Case for one ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees [mounted with Inv No. 1888-158] with brass mountings and adjustments to minimum angle divation in case. Used with a 10-inch refracting telescope with equatorial mount by Cooke at the South Kensington Solar Physics Observatory and is now at the Norman Lockyer Observatory at Sidmouth, Devon

Case for one ten inch flint glass prism

Case for one ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees [mounted with Inv No. 1888-158] with brass mountings and adjustments to minimum angle divation in case. Used with a 10-inch refracting telescope with equatorial mount by Cooke at the South Kensington Solar Physics Observatory and is now at the Norman Lockyer Observatory at Sidmouth, Devon

Materials:
wood
Object Number:
1889-68 Pt1
type:
components , storage boxes and instruments
One ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees

One ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees

One ten inch flint glass prism of angle 12 1/2 degrees [mounted with Inv No. 1888-158 and shares the same case] with brass mountings and adjustments to minimum angle divation. Used with a 10-inch refracting telescope with equatorial mount by Cooke at the South Kensington Solar Physics Observatory and is now at the Norman Lockyer Observatory at Sidmouth, Devon.

Object Number:
1889-68/2
type:
prisms
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