Collection

Greenwich Royal Observatory

occupation:
State observatory
Nationality:
English; British
Made:
Evesham

Founded by King Charles II in 1675. Succeeded by the Royal Greenwich Observatory after 1947 when the observing function was moved to Herstmonceux, Sussex beyond London

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Glass diapositive in passe-partout frame [X31] of the solar chromosphere [3 (black-and-white transparencies; spectra; Sun; chromosphere)

Photograph of the instruments used by the British expedition when observing the 1919 total solar eclipse in Brazil. (black-and-white print (photograph); ancillary instrument; astronomical instruments; refracting telescopes; heliostats (astronomical); solar eclipse)

Glass positive photograph of total solar eclipse (black-and-white transparency; solar eclipse)

Comet 1914 V (Delvian) (black-and-white transparencies; astrophotographs; comets)

Glass positive:- Part of Ursa Major (black-and-white transparencies; astrophotographs; stars)

Glass positive:- Orion. From photograph taken with (black-and-white transparencies; astrophotographs; stars)

Transparency:- Milky Way in Sagittarius (black-and-white transparencies; astrophotographs; Milky Way; galaxies)

Comet 1914 V (Delvian) (black-and-white transparencies; astrophotographs; comets)

Print from engraving of John Dollond, 1830-1839 (print; portrait)

Kew Photoheliograph (photoheliograph)

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive (telescope - refracting)

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