Base for 'Galaxy' automatic plate measuring machine

Made:
1967-1972 in Jena
maker:
VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, Jena

Base for 'Galaxy' automatic plate measuring machine, c. 1969

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1993-527
Materials:
steel
type:
instrument component and plate measurer - astronomical
credit:
Royal Greenwich Observatory, Cambridge

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