Cambridge Vol. 1. CUP Archive. Article about Sheepshanks equatorial Sheepshanks telescope at RGM 19th century watercolour painting showing Sheepshanks dome...
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Sheepshanks is a surname. Notable people include: Anne Sheepshanks (1794–1855), English astronomical benefactor David Sheepshanks, British businessman...
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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...
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Thomson 9-inch Photographic Refractor (c.1888) Sheepshanks refractor 6.7-inch (1838) (aka Sheepshanks Equatorial) 6-inch Franklin Adams Camera (1898) Shuckburgh...
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Daily time signals began, marked by dropping a time ball. 1838 – Sheepshanks equatorial, a 6.7 inches (170 mm) aperture refracting telescope installed....
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observations, put the library on a proper footing, mounted the new (Sheepshanks) equatorial and organised a new magnetic observatory. In 1847 an altazimuth...
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23 cm refractor Ghent, Belgium, UGENT Observatory Armand Pien 1880 Sheepshanks Equatorial of Royal Greenwich Observatory 17 cm (6.7") achromat Greenwich,...
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outside Ireland soon followed, including the 6.7-inch (170 mm) Sheepshanks equatorial refractor for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (London, 1838) and...
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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...
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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...
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conducted with the filar micrometer from Herstmonceux with the 28 inch. Sheepshanks equatorial (Since 1838) List of largest optical refracting telescopes List...
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telescope) List of largest optical telescopes in the British Isles Sheepshanks equatorial (6.7 inch refractor also at Greenwich) Winterhalter, Albert Gustavus...
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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...
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of an equatorial mounting that Troughton made for him. Troughton sued for payment, and with informal legal counsel provided by Richard Sheepshanks, he prevailed...
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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...
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On the announcement of the discovery, Herschel, Challis, and Richard Sheepshanks, foreign secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society, announced that...
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