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

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1909 in Cape Town
Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory
Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory

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Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope. Enquiries to Science Museum, London

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Nineteen photographs of instruments and stars fields taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (as per list in technical file).

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.

One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing the dome and building for the 7-inch Heliometer by Messrs Repsold and Sons, Hamburg. Used widely by Sir David Gill to make stellar parallax measurements from 1887 onwards.

One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing the reversible transit circle by Cooke

Photograph of reversible transit circle

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing the Cooke (?) transit circle being reversed on its trolly.

One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing the building with a shutter roof for the reversible transit circle by Cooke?

One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing transit instrument pillars erected by the Rev. Fearson Fallows.

One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken by the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing M. Lacailles' wall sundial in Cape Town.

One of nineteen photographs taken by the Royal Observatory

1909
One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the monument marking the site of Sir John W. Herschel's telescope at Feldhausen, South Africa .

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the Official Residences.

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the Victoria Telescope, a twin 24/18-inch astrographic telescope by Howard Grubb, Dublin and endowed by Frank McClean.

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the a spectrograph on the Victoria Telescope, a twin 24/18-inch astrographic telescope by Howard Grubb, Dublin and endowed by Frank McClean.

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the building for the Victoria Telescope, a twin 24/18-inch astrographic telescope by Howard Grubb, Dublin and endowed by Frank McClean.

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

1909
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.

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs taken at the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, showing the building and dome for the Carte du Ciel twin astrographic refractor by Howard Grubb, Dublin.

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

1909
One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory

One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory

1909
Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (1 hour exposure)

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (1 hour exposure)

1909
One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing a view of the emission nebula, Eta Carina. A 4 hour exposure taken with the Astrographic Telescope by Howard Grubb made for the 'Carte du Ciel' photographic sky survey.

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (4 hour exposure)

1909
Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (12 hour exposure)

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (12 hour exposure)

1909
Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (24 hour exposure)

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (24 hour exposure)

1909

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1909-211
Materials:
card and paper
Measurements:
mounts (x19): mm
type:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
credit:
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope

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