One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory
- Made:
- 1909 in Cape Town and South Africa
One of nineteen photographs from the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, showing a 7-inch Heliometer with equatorial mounting by Messrs Repsold and Sons, Hamburg. Used widely by Sir David Gill to make stellar parallax measurements from 1887 onwards.
Details
- Category:
- Astronomy
- Object Number:
- 1909-211/1
- Materials:
- card
- Measurements:
-
overall (mount): 405 x 355 x 1.5 mm
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
