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Glass positive:- Jupiter

1915

Glass positive:- Saturn

1909-1921

Glass positive:- Saturn

1927

Glass positive:- Jupiter

1927

Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars

1909

Drawings of Mars from Lick Observatory

1892

Glass positive:- Jupiter

1917

Jupiter; E.E. Barnard

1891

Glass positive:- Venus

1927

Glass positive:- Jupiter

1927

Glass positive:- Mars

1926

Miniature orrery arranged for use as a lantern slide operated by detachable key, both contained in fitted wooden box lined with baize, obverse engraved with following inscription: "invented and made by James Simons, Portman Place, Edgware Road", c.1790

Miniature orrery, used as a lantern slide, with case and key used to operate it

1785-1795

Set of two colour engravings with window mounts of colour sketches showing the planet Jupiter, observed and drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872. Supervised by Prof. Winlock and published in the Annals of the Harvard College Observatory in 1876 with money from Josiah Quincy & the Sturgis Fund.

Set of two colour engravings with window mounts of colour sketches showing the planet Jupiter

1872

One of two colour engravings (Pl.2) with window mounts showing four colour sketches of the planet Jupiter, observed and drawn by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872.

Colour print of drawings of the planet Jupiter

1872

Positive transparency on film, size 6 1/2" x 8 1/2", Mars in blue and red light, 200" Hale Telescope of Palomar Observatory

Positive transparency on film

1966

Glass positive of:- The new planet Pluto. Lowell Observatory 42-inch Reflector. Focal length 220ins. March 5d 3h 44m. C.O. Lampland. 12"x8". (Prepared from silver print [from R.A.S. N.416] lent by Sir James Jeans)

Glass positive of the 'new planet Pluto'

1930

Glass positive:- Mars and San Jose, (photographs in light of different colours) W.H. Wright, Lick Observatory, 1924, November 9, 36-inch Reflector, focal length, 210 in, a, c violet; b, d infra-red 8 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Glass positive:- Mars and San Jose

1924

Photographic transparencies (glass positive) of Mars, (photographs in light of different colours). Taken by W.H. Wright, Lick Observatory, 1926, October 16, with a 36-inch reflector, focal length, 210in. Photographs in ultra-violet, green, yellow red, infra-red, and violet light respectively.

Glass positive of Mars

1926-10-16

Photograph of a pastel drawing of the planet Saturn from observations by M. Etienne Leopold Touvelot (artist), September 1875, using telescopes of the United States Naval Observatory at Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC.

Photograph of a pastel drawing of the planet Saturn from observations by M. Etienne Leopold Touvelot (artist)

1876

Glass positive:- E.E. Barnard, Mount Wilson Observatory, 1911, November 19, 60-inch Reflector, equivalent focal length, 100ft

Glass positive:- E.E. Barnard

1911

Glass diapositive, 3 1/4"x2", of Mars. Taken by A. Dollfus with the 60cm. Refractor at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory at 0h.40m. on 8th July 1954

Glass diapositive

1954; 1963

One of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX), Phoebe, supplied by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1911.

One of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX)

1911

One of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX), Phoebe, supplied by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1911.

One of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX)

1911

One of two glass positives:- Jupiter, J.H. Reynolds, Birmingham, 1917, November 16, 28-inch reflector, equivalent focal length, 160ft

One of two glass positives:- Jupiter

1917; 1929

Selection of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX), Phoebe, supplied by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1911.

Selection of two photographs of Saturn and its satellite (IX)

1911

Two glass Positives:- Jupiter, J.H. Reynolds, Birmingham, 1917, November 16, 28-inch reflector, equivalent focal length, 160ft

Two glass Positives:- Jupiter

1917

Selection of three photographs showing Jupiter's outer satellites (VI, VII, VIII), Himialia, Elara & Pariphae supplied by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Selection of three photographs showing Jupiter's outer satellites

1911

Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars, E.E. Barnard, Yerkes Observatory, 1909, September 24th, 16h. 55m. G.M.T. 40-inch refractor, exposure, 4 sec, to 5 sec, Yellow colour screen

Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars

1909

Glass diapositive, 3 1/4"x3 3/4", of Saturn. Taken by H. Carmichel with the 60cm. Refractor at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory at 23h. 50m. on 19th October 1941

Glass diapositive

1941

Glass diapositive, 3 1/4"x3 3/4", of Jupiter. Taken by B. Lyot with 60cm. Refractor at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory at 21h. 15m. on 20th March 1945

Glass diapositive

1945

One of two colour engravings (Pl.1) with window mounts showing four colour sketches of the planet Jupiter, observed and drawn byEtienne Leopold Trouvelot in 1872.

Colour print of drawings of the planet Jupiter

1872

Transparency, 8 1/2"x6 1/2", showing Mercury in Transit, Greenwich 4in. photoheliograph, 1914 November 7

Transparency, 8 1/2"x6 1/2"

1914

Positive transparency on film, size 8 1/2" x 6 1/2", Jupiter in blue light showing large red spot, satellite Ganymede and shadow Palomar 200" Hale Telescope

Positive transparency on film

1966

Positive transparency on film, size 12" x 10", five phases of Venus Lowell Observatory, 1919, (prepared from print purchased from the Lowell Observatory)

Positive transparency on film

1919

Glass positive, 12"x10" of the planet Pluto, in the neighbourhood of Zeta Geminorum, 29th March 1930. Scale 1mm = 5 secs. of arc

Glass positive

1930

Glass positive, 12"x10" of the planet Pluto, in the neighbourhood of Zeta Geminorum, 2.4. 30. Scale 1mm = 5secs. of arc

Glass positive

1930

Photographic transparency (glass positive) of Mars, cloud pictures, (photographs in violet or ultra-violet light). Taken by W. H. Wright, Lick Observatory, 1926, October 14, 15, 16, 18, with a 36-inch reflector, focal length, 210in, 6 1/2" x 4 1/4".

Glass positive of Mars

1926-10

Photographic transparency, glass positive, of Mars, (photographs in light of different colours). Taken by W.H. Wright, Lick Observatory, 1926 November 2, 3, with a 36-inch reflector, focal length, 210 in. Right and left photographs in infra-red light.

Glass positive of Mars

1926-11-02

Glass positive:- Jupiter, J.H. Reynolds, Birmingham, 1917, December 21 28-inch reflector, equivalent focal length, 160ft, 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Glass positive:- Jupiter

1917

One of two glass positives:- Jupiter, J.H. Reynolds, Birmingham, 1917, December 13, 28-inch reflector, equivalent focal length, 160 ft, 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"

One of two glass positives:- Jupiter

1917

Glass positive:- Halley's comet and Venus, H.E. Wood Union Observatory, Johannesburg, 1910, May 6, 10-inch Cooke lens, focal length, 45in exposure, 60 min, 6 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Glass positive:- Halley's comet and Venus

1910