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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924
Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

Caroline Herschel's telescope, 1795-1816

1795-1816
Reflecting telescope by William Herschel, 1783-1785

Reflecting telescope by William Herschel, 1783-1785

1783-1785
Reflecting telescope with trolly stand, 1767-1768

Reflecting telescope with trolly stand, 1767-1768

1767-1768
Phil Shepherdson’s home-made nine-inch reflecting telescope

Phil Shepherdson’s home-made nine-inch reflecting telescope

1968
Small Newtonian telescope, on stand (not original)

Small Newtonian telescope, on stand (not original)

TAL-1 Amateur Astronomer Telescope, a newtonian reflecting telescope with a 110mm mirror and a focal length of 806mm on a German type equatorial mount with slow motions, setting circles, eyepieces, filters and other accessories.

TAL-1 Amateur Astronomer Telescope, a newtonian reflecting telescope, with accessories and equatorial mount

1994
Newtonian reflecting telescope of 10-foot focal length, made by William Herschel, England, 1812. The telescope has an 8-inch speculum mirror, mahogany tube and altazimuth stand. It was installed at the Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford, in 1813.

Newtonian reflecting telescope made by William Herschel for the Radcliffe Observatory

1812
Meade Starfinder Dobsonian telescope, a newtonian reflecting telescope with a 6-inch mirror and a focal length of 48-inches on an altazimuth mount with a selection of accessories

Meade Starfinder Dobsonian telescope

1995
Newtonian reflecting telescope, made to specifications of Leon Foucault (originally fitted with silver-on-glass mirror) by Secretan, mounted on wooden table stand, Paris, 1857-1868. Accessories include three eye-pieces in fitted leather lined wooden case.

Newtonian Reflecting Telescope, by Secretan, 1857-1868

1857-1868
Newtonian reflecting telescope with ten-inch glass mirror, on an equatorial fork mounting, made by Horace Dall in Luton, England, UK, 1933-1937.

Ten-inch Newtonian telescope made by Horace Dall

1933-1937