Photographs of space taken with telescopes around the world.
Collection of photographs including a photograph of a Constellation Centauri lithograph taken 19 February 1903 with a 24 inch Victoria Telescope at Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope; a photograph of a spiral Nebula in Ursae Majoris taken 5 February 1910; a nebula near to Orion taken about 1910; a photograph of the Great Nebula in Andromeda taken with 4 and half hour exposure; photograph of the moon taken at the Royal observatory Greenwich 29 May 1909 with the 26 inch refractor; a photograph of the moon taken 1947; a photograph of an eclipse of the sun and a close up photograph of one of the larger craters of the moon the Imbrium Basin showing the Mare Imbrium (a vast lava plain) and the Eratosthenes crater also included is a map of the picture.
Record Details
| Item reference: | HSR/P/1/5; MS1972/058 MSS/72/058 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Manuscript documents acquired singly by the Museum |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | 1 folder |
| Date made: | 1903-1947 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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- Photographs relating to the Old Royal Observatory. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/1)
- Photographs belonging to Richard Thomas Cullen mostly of telescopes at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/2)
- Photos taken of telescopes at Greenwich before their move to Herstmonceux. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/3)
- Photos of the move of Cooke's Reversible Transit Circle from Greenwich to Herstmonceux. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/4)
- Photographs of space taken with telescopes around the world. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/5)
- Three photographs, one of the moon, one of the sun and one photograph of staff at Greenwich. (Manuscript) (HSR/P/1/6)
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