Cambridge Vol. 1. CUP Archive. Article about Sheepshanks equatorial Sheepshanks telescope at RGM 19th century watercolour painting showing Sheepshanks dome...

Sheepshanks is a surname. Notable people include: Anne Sheepshanks (1794–1855), English astronomical benefactor David Sheepshanks, British businessman...

Richard Sheepshanks (30 July 1794, in Leeds – 4 August 1855, in Reading) was a British astronomer. He was born the son of Joseph Sheepshanks, a Leeds textile...

Daily time signals began, marked by dropping a time ball. 1838 – Sheepshanks equatorial, a 6.7 inches (170 mm) aperture refracting telescope installed....

observations, put the library on a proper footing, mounted the new (Sheepshanks) equatorial and organised a new magnetic observatory. In 1847 an altazimuth...

Thomson 9-inch Photographic Refractor (c.1888) Sheepshanks refractor 6.7-inch (1838) (aka Sheepshanks Equatorial) 6-inch Franklin Adams Camera (1898) Shuckburgh...

23 cm refractor Ghent, Belgium, UGENT Observatory Armand Pien 1880 Sheepshanks Equatorial of Royal Greenwich Observatory 17 cm (6.7") achromat Greenwich,...

outside Ireland soon followed, including the 6.7-inch (170 mm) Sheepshanks equatorial refractor for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (London, 1838) and...

telescope) List of largest optical telescopes in the British Isles Sheepshanks equatorial (6.7 inch refractor also at Greenwich) Winterhalter, Albert Gustavus...

transit of stars across the local meridian) and the use of the Sheepshanks Equatorial telescope. In July 1894, after having worked at the Royal Observatory...

Greenwich an 1838 instrument named the Sheepshanks telescope includes an objective by Cauchoix. The Sheepshanks had a 6.7 inch (17 cm) wide lens, and was...

conducted with the filar micrometer from Herstmonceux with the 28 inch. Sheepshanks equatorial (Since 1838) List of largest optical refracting telescopes List...

Greenwich an 1838 instrument named the Sheepshanks telescope includes an objective by Cauchoix. The Sheepshanks had a 6.7-inch (17 cm) wide lens, and was...

of an equatorial mounting that Troughton made for him. Troughton sued for payment, and with informal legal counsel provided by Richard Sheepshanks, he prevailed...

of the steadiness and clarity of star images with the 3.6-inch (9 cm) Sheepshanks telescope and found both much better than at Edinburgh. He also made...

On the announcement of the discovery, Herschel, Challis, and Richard Sheepshanks, foreign secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, announced that...