Image
Category
Collection
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Date

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Gunter quadrant

1650-1725

Filar micrometer by William Herschel, 1780-1800

1780-1800

Prototype beam splitter for the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (aLIGO)

2008 (prototype)

Replica of refracting telescope by Galileo, 1610

1610

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

1738-1777

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Gunter quadrant by Walter Hayes

1648-1687

Pocket globe in case by Dudley Adams

1799-1802

Mural arc made for King George III

1770

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Altitude quadrant

1552

Astrolabe by Ferdinand Arsenius

1607-1618

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Gunter quadrant

1640

Armillary sphere by Girolamo Della Volpaia

1554

Ebony and brass octant.

1777-1810

Orrery made by John Rowley for the Earl of Orrery

1712-1713

Objective lens by John Reeves

1657-1689

Terrestrial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1599

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

1658

Moon globe by John Russell;England;1797

1797

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Foucault Pendulum for Demonstrating the Earth's Rotation

1988

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Brass disc with diagram of inner Solar System showing Thomas Wright's "construction" of the Great Comet of 1744

Islamic astrolabe, 1601-1699

1600-1699

Astronomical clock with planisphere face designed by Franz Heinrich Klodt

1880-1899

Hammond's Improved Planisphere

1890-1910

Star finder and identifier no. 2102-D by Weems and Plath

1985-1987

Astronomical object glass lens of 10-inch diameter by G. & S. Merz

1867-1904

Charge-coupled device chip

1975-1984

Charge-coupled device chip by RCA

1975-1984

Spectracon image tube by Instrument Technology Ltd.

1980-1984

Stereoscopic slide of the full Moon photographed from original negatives of Warren De La Rue

Artificial horizon of black glass

1830-1860

Star finder and identifier

1958

Film positive (7 3/4" x 9 7/8") Nebula N.G.C. 4565

1923

Triangular quadrant

1683

Glass positive:- Comet 1911 IV (Brooks) H. Knox-Shaw

1911

Great star cloud near Messier 11

1895

Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars

1909

Glass positive:- Jupiter

1915

Drawings of Mars from Lick Observatory

1892

Glass positive:- Saturn

1909-1921

Film positive (7 3/4" x 9 7/8") Nebula N.G.C. 5194/5.M51

1923

Cardboard draw tube telescope

1751-1800

English horary quadrant, 1650-1725

1650-1725

Region of star cluster Messier 11.

1905