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Produced Thursday, 20 November, 2003. Latest update: 2008-07-18

                                                                            

 

    Mr A.R. Hinks

    2nd Order Differential Refraction Terms, Monthly Notices Vol 63 p138

    CO/33/D.3.12

 

    36 inch reflector, 1956-9

    CO/18/D.3.12

 

    36 inch telescope with 3 channel photometer, looking southwards

    late 1950s

    CO/11/D.3.12

 

    36 inch Telescope, c.1956

    CO/20/D.3.12

 

    Adams J.C

    PE/47/D.2.11

 

    Adams J. C.

    PE/54/D.2.11

 

    AdamsJ. C., From 'Nature' October 14th 1886 (engraved by G.J. Stodart from a photograph by J.E. Mayall)

    PE/62/Rare Books                                                                               

 

    Adams J. C., 1856

    PE/81/Rare Books

 

    Adams J. C., circa 1890

    Library Room C

 

    Photograph presented to F. J. M. Stratton of W.S. Adams                                                                                

    PE/16/D.2.11

 

    Airy 1 Photograph, Negatives by Richard Sword

 

    Plans of Allegheny Observatory, Allegheny City

    Found in The Brickbuilder Vol 9 No 6 Plates 41 and 48

    TOO/18/D.2.12

 

    Arago D. F.

    PE/78/Rare Books

 

    Astronomy Related Portraits and Prints

    TOO/37D.3.11

 

    Membership certificate to the Astronomy Society of France, 1924

    PE/31/D.2.11

 

    Picture and text relating to Cambridge Observatory Expedition to Atafu

    Island

    EX/12/D.3.11

 

    General Chart of Australia from the surveys of Captain Flinders, 1829

    AMI/21/D.3.10

 

    Baily F. President of the Royal Astronomy Society, c.1929

    PE/35/D.2.11

 

 

    Ball Robert

    late 19th Century

    PE/13/D.2.11

 

    Ball R.

    PE/55/D.2.11

 

    Possibly the young Robert Ball? (studio portrait by Werner, 39 Grafton St. Dublin. In pencil on back 'Lady Ball, The Observatory'

    PE/5/D.2.11

 

    Ball R. S., 1894 portrait photograph by Fitzpatrick of Belfast

    Library Room C

 

    Balloon flights for Solar Granulation with Blackwell, Dewhirst, Dollfus at

    Meudon, Paris

    EX/15/D.3.11

 

    The Globule, Barnard 335 seen through 90 inch reflector, 1970

    AMI/9/D.3.11

 

    Photograph of engraving of expedition to observe eclipse: Bekal

    Observatory, Ceylon, 1871

    EX/1/D.3.11

 

    Two b/w photographs of Comet Bennett, 1970

    Taken by William Granger

    AMI/101/D.3.11

 

    Bessel

    PE/20/D.2.11

 

    Bode J. E.

    c.1800

    PE/69/Rare Books

 

    Bode J. E.

    PE/80/Rare Books

 

    The Star Spectroscope made by J. A. Brashear for Lick Observatory, Cal.

    late 19th

    TOO/7/D.2.12

 

    Images from The Bruce Photographic Telescope, 1896

    AMI/88/D.3.11

 

    Cambridge Eclipse Expedition, Khartoum, 1952

    EX/4/D.3.11

 

    Cambridge Observatory Transit Circle, presumably in T. Cooke and Sons

    Workshop, York 1870

    CO/16/D.3.12

 

    Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy, Part II, 1996

    GP/26/D.2.10

 

    Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy, 1996

    GP/27

 

    The Cambridge machine for measuring celestial photographs (see A.R. Hinks, MNRAS 61, 444)

    CO/10/D.3.12

    CO/10/D.3.12

    CO/10/D.3.12

 

    Aerial Photograph of Cambridge Observatories, Post 1960

    CO/31/D.3.12

 

    View looking South West from top of Cambridge Observatory, c.1900

    CO/5/D.3.12

 

 

    Plans of Cambridge Observatory, 1820s

    CO/26/D.3.12

 

    Exhibition of Rare Books from Cambridge Observatories Library

    CO/12/D.3.12

 

    Grating Spectroscope attached to the 25 inch equatorial of the Cambridge

    Observatory

    CO/39/D.3.12

 

    Interior of Cambridge Solar Tunnel, c.1955

    CO/46/D.3.12

 

    Interior of Library (Cambridge Observatory)

    CO/4/D.3.12

 

    Early b/w photograph of South Front (Cambridge Observatory)

    CO/3/D.3.12

 

(Cambridge)Observatory Building with Crane during construction of Royal     Greenwich Observatory, 1989.

    CO/22/D.3.12

 

    (Cambridge) Observatory Building : roof refurbishment Aug/Sept 1991

 

    Transit Circle in 1896 (Cambridge)

    CO/30/D.3.12

 

    Transit Circle of 1870 (Cambridge)taken c.1900

    CO/3/D.3.12

    CO/3/D.3.12

    CO/3/D.3.12

    CO/3/D.3.12

 

    Plan of artificial harbour for Cape May Roads, 1836

    AMI/22/D.3.11

 

    Cauchy A.

    PE/41/D.2.11

 

    Ceolostat house opened for afternoon observations shortly before autumnal

    equinox

    CO/34/D.3.12

 

    A Cerro Tololo Schmidt print of the U.V. network of Nebulosity associated

    with the Vela Pulsar and Super Nova Remnant,  c.1970

    AMI/5/D.3.11

 

    Ceylon Eclipse Expedition, 1955

    EX/7/D.3.11

 

    Challis, James. Plumian Professor, 1874

    PE/58/Rare Books

 

    Challis James, c.1866

    PE/66/Rare Books

 

    Twenty Inch Equatorial of the Chamberlin Observatory, Denver Colorado.

    Designed and built by G.N. Saemuller, Washington

    TOO/30/D.2.12

 

    Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island, 1840

    AMI/15/D.3.10

 

    Colburn Z.,  c.1813

    PE/38/D.2.11

 

    Comet Kohoutek, 1973

    AMI/4/D.3.11

 

    The Great Nebula in Orion, enlarged 7 times from the negative taken with 3

    foot Reflector, Ealing by A. A. Common, 1883

    AMI/85/D.3.11

 

    The Nebula of Orion photographed by A. A. Common (3 Foot Reflector)1883

    AMI/92/D.3.11

 

    Conference of Compact Objects, 1973

    GP/13/D.2.10

 

    Approximately 8 inch Telescope in T. Cookes Workshop, York.

    TOO/14/D.2.12

 

    Telescope built by T. Cooke and Sons at York, 1891 (2 Photographs)

 

    Mr Coopers Great Achromatic Telescope, Markree Ireland, 1834

    TOO/11/D.2.12

 

    Eldridge W.

    Engraving of the temporary mounting of Coopers Achromatic Refracting

    Telescope

    TOO/10/D.2.12

 

    Copernicus N. 1473-1543, c.1900

    PE/19/D.2.10

 

    Cosmic Ray Conference, 1968

    GP/14/D.2.10

 

    Crookes, W., c.1911

    PE/8/D.2.11

 

    Curtis Schmidt, Cerro Tololo, 1969, (2 Photographs)

 

    Cygnus. Var 3, Range 18th -14th Magnitude. Period 416 days

    AMI/2/D.3.11

 

    Dandelin Pierre, 1848

    PE/63/Rare Books

 

    Darwin Mr. G. H.

    PE/52/D.2.11

 

    de Moivre Abra., 1736

    PE/77/Rare Books

 

    Drawings of the Dolland Transit Circle

    CO/1/D.3.12

 

    Great Dorpat Refractor, 1824

    TOO/1/D.2.12

 

    Photograph of Diffraction Spectrum taken by Professor Henry Draper,

    University of New York, 1872

    AMI/86/D.3.11

 

    Photograph of the Dumb Bell Nebula 27th Vulpecule, 1888

    AMI/78/D.3.11

 

    Eclipse Expedition

    Late 1930s

 

    Photograph of Eclipse

    AMI/83/D.3.11

 

    Photograph of the totality of an eclipse

    AMI/90/Rare Books

 

    Broadsheets on Eclipses of 1715

    AMI/11/D.3.11

 

    A.S. Eddington outside front door at back end of the Institute building,1930

    CO/17/D.3.12

 

    Photographed by Miss W. Eddington

    Eddington and Einstein at Cambridge Observatory, 1930

    CO/40/D.3.12

 

    Eddington, c.1925

    PE/83/D.2.11

 

    Copies of selected Eddington Manuscripts, c.1898-1933

    EX/8/D.3.11

 

    Euler, c.1900

    PE/17/D.2.11

 

    Map of Europe, c.1835

    AMI/19/D.3.10

 

    Flamsteed J., 1721

    PE/70/Rare Books

 

    Forsyth Scott R. Master of St Johns College, Cambridge, c.1913

    PE/51/D.2.11

 

    Foster Sir M. Secretary of the Royal Society 1881-1903, c.1900

    PE/30/D.2.11

 

    Galileo, c.1900

    PE/21/D.2.11

 

    House of Galileo, Pisa

    TOO/13/D.2.12

 

    Geikie A.

    PE/28/D.2.11

 

    Globular Clusters Conference, 1978

    GP/9/D.2.10

 

    Graham, Andrew

    PE/86/D.2.11

 

    Starr and Reginal

    Andrew Graham, Chief Assistant of Observatory, c.1903

    PE/2/D.2.11 (identical with PE/86/D.2.11)

 

    Graph of water heights and times at the Island Coo-long-so, Amoy Harbour

    AMI/57/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Acapulco

    AMI/52/D.3.10

    Graph of Heights of tides at Scilly Islands, 1835

    AMI/12/D.3.11

    Graph of High Water times and heights at St. Martins Cove, Hermit Isle,

    Cape Horn, 1842

    AMI/29/D.3.10

    Graph of Plymouth Tidal Heights, 1834

    AMI/18/D.3.10

    Graph of Singapore Heights,1835

    AMI/23/D.3.10

    Graph of Tahiti Tides

    AMI/63/D.3.11

    Graph of Tidal heights at Port Essington

    AMI/28/D.3.10

    Graph of tidal heights of Depuck Island, c.1840

    AMI/16/D.3.10

    Graph of water height and times at Rat Island

    AMI/31/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and tides at Realejo

    AMI/41/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and time at Island of Puna

    AMI/44/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Bay of Islands, New Zealand, High

    Water

    AMI/68/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Black Island, Baton Island and Sand

    Island

    AMI/61/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Bon Island

    AMI/62/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Callao

    AMI/49/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Cape Upstart, New South Wales

    AMI/34/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Circular Head, Bass' Strait

    AMI/65/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at East Wallaby Island, 1840

    AMI/72/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Hong Kong, Patchusan and Santubon

    AMI/56/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Kents' Group, Bass' Strait

    AMI/35/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at King George's Sound

    AMI/36/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Lighthouse Port Phillip

    AMI/38/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at New Ireland (Carterets Harbour)

    AMI/58/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Nicoya (Island of St Lucas)

    AMI/43/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Panama Bay, Port Victoria, Nerah Bay

    and Punta Piedra

    AMI/55/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Panama

    AMI/45/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Port Adelaide

    AMI/40/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Port Dalrymple

    AMI/66/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Port Essington

    AMI/64/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Port Refuge, Bass' Strait

    AMI/37/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at River Columbia

    AMI/53/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at San Francisco

    AMI/54/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Sitka

    AMI/59/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at South Eastern end of Preservation

    Island, Bank's Strait

    AMI/39/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Swan River

    AMI/30/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Tahiti (Island of Motuta)

    AMI/42/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at the Bay of Magdalena

    AMI/51/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at the Feegee Islands (Nukulan)

    AMI/60/D.3.11

    Graph of water heights and times at Three Hummock Island, Hunters Isles,

    Bass' Strait

    AMI/67/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times at Western Port, Bass' Strait

    AMI/93/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times of Port Bowen

    AMI/33/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights and times of the south side of Swan Island, Bank's

    Strait

    AMI/32/D.3.10

    Graph of water heights at St Martins Cove

    AMI/50/D.3.10

    Graph regarding Eastern Coast of England, 1835

    AMI/13/D.3.10

    Graph regarding Eastern Coast of Scotland, 1834

    AMI/14/D.3.10

    Graph regarding Plymouth, 1837

    AMI/17/D.3.10

    Graph relating to Coast of Scotland

    AMI/25/D.3.10

    Graph relating to Plymouth, 1834

    AMI/26/D.3.10                                                                         

    Graph showing range of tides at Plymouth, 1834

    AMI/70/D.3.10

    Graph showing range of tides at Singapore and Plymouth

    AMI/69/D.3.10

    Graph showing range of tides at Singapore Heights, 1835

    AMI/71/D.3.10

    Graph showing range of tides near Eastern England, 1835

    AMI/24/D.3.10

    Graphs showing heights of high water Portugal and America, 1835

    AMI/20/D.3.10

 

    W.H. Steavenson, photograph with Greenwich 28-inch refractor, c.1927

    TOO/24/D.2.12

 

    Grosser Refractor at the Astrophysics Observatory, Potsdam

    TOO/9/D.2.12

 

    The Gum Nebula

    AMI/8/D.3.11

 

    Hadley J.

    PE/79/Rare Books

 

    Seymour Thomas S.

    Portrait of George Hale with letter from R.A. Gregory (Nature), 1933

    PE/1/D.2.11

 

    Stereoscopic photograph of Lunar crater Copernicus with letter from Hale

    to Newall, 1920

    TOO/27/D.2.12

 

    Halley, 1712

    PE/85/Rare Books

 

    The Orbits of Halley's Biela's and Encke's Comets compared with those of

    the planets.

    AMI/1/D.3.11

 

    Hartness Turret Telescope, Springfield Vermont, c.1935

    TOO/4/D.2.12

 

    Nebula taken through the Harvard Refractor

    TOO/22/D.2.12

 

    Henry, Andrews, c.1800

    PE/59/Rare Books

 

    Herschel Caroline Lucretia, 1829

    PE/68/Rare Books

 

    Herschel Dr., 1814

    PE/74/Rare Books

 

    Herschel J. F. W., 1835

    PE/75/Rare Books

 

    Herschel J., 1875

    PE/76/Rare Books

 

    Herschel W.

    PE/72/Rare Books

 

    Herschels 20ft reflecting telescope 1794

    TOO/16/D.2.12

 

    Discovery of Herschels 40ft mirror at Slough and Engraving of original 40

    ft telescope. 1927 (photograph)

    TOO/2/D.2.12

 

    Steavenson, W. H.

    Original Negatives of Herschel Instruments at Slough

    TOO/23/D.2.12

 

    Herstmonceux Conference, c.1976

    GP/22/D.2.10

 

    Hevelius, c.1900

    PE/14/D.2.11

 

    Hipparchus c.100BC-127BC,  c.1900

    PE/18/D.2.10

 

    Huggins W.

    PE/56/D.2.11

 

    The [Huggins] twin equatorial

    Reproduced from: Chambers 'Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy' 4th ed. Volume 2 (1890) in the Library at E.29.1

    CO/52-D.3.12

 

    Huyghens, c.1900

    PE/23/D.2.11

 

    Institute of Astronomy Infra-red Conference, 1969

    GP/24/D.2.10

 

    Institute of Astronomy Staff and Summer Visitors, 1970

    GP/25/D.2.10

 

    Institute of Astronomy W. Fowler 60th Birthday Meeting on Massive Objects,

    1971

    GP/23/D.2.10

 

Institute of Astronomy Staff and Summer Visitors, 1974.  Photo by Edward Leigh

    E.27.1

 

    Photographed by Sword R.

    Institute of Astronomy, 1986

    CO/23/D.3.12

 

    Institute of Astronomy Telescopes and Domes, 1991

    CO/42/D.3.11

 

    Institute of Astronomy, 1996

    GP/2/D.2.10

 

    Institute of Astronomy : Official Opening of the Lecture Theatre

    10th November 1999

    CO/49/D.3.12

 

    Institute of Astronomy : ‘Making Light of Gravity’ conference, 2002

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘The Quest for a Concordance Cosmology and Beyond’ conference, 5-9 July 2004 (to commemorate 300 years of the Plumian Professorship).

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘Starbursts – from 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies’ conference, 6-10 September 2004.

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘Mass and Mystery in the Local Group’ conference, 18-22 July 2005 (to commemorate the 70th birthday of Professor Donald Lynden-Bell)

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘Planet-Disc Connection’ conference, 17-21 July 2006

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘Unsolved problems in stellar physics’ conference in honour of Douglas Gough, 2-6 July 2007

    E.27.1

 

Institute of Astronomy : ‘Putting gravity to work: From black holes to galaxy clusters’ conference in honour of Andy Fabian, 21-25 July 2008

    E.27.1

 

    Aerial photograph of Institute of Astronomy

    CO/1/D.3.12

 

    Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, c. 1960s

    CO/13/D.3.12

 

    Staff Members of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, 1967

    GP/16/D.2.10

 

    International Spectroscopy Conference, Bonn, 1913

    GP/3/D.2.10

   

    2nd Conference of International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research,

    Oxford, 1905

    GP/4/D.2.10

 

    3rd Conference of International Union for Co-operation in Solar Research,

    Meudon Paris, 1907

    GP/18/D.2.10

 

    Photographs of Iron Arc Spectrum

    AMI/80/D.3.11

 

    Jackson H. Professor of Greek at Trinity College

    PE/44/D.2.11

 

    Photographs relating to Cambridge Eclipse Expedition to Japan

    EX/16/Rare Books

 

    Jean-Baptiste Joseph, c.1803

    PE/65/Rare Books

 

    Jebb R. C. (1841-1905)

    PE/27/D.2.11

 

    Engraved by Sargent, J. S

    Francis Jenkinson, Librarian of Cambridge University

    PE/4/D.2.11

 

    Johnston Stoney D. G., late 19th Century

    PE/11/D.2.11

 

    Kepler, c.1900

    PE/15/D.2.11

 

    H.C. Key

    Observations in London by H.C. Key, 1837

    EX/5/D.3.11

 

    Photographed by Mathews H. E.

    36 inch Equatorial, Lick Observatory, 1886

    TOO/29/D.2.12

 

    Lick Observatory Library late 1900s

    TOO/6/D.2.12

 

    Plane Crash at Lick Observatory, 1939

    TOO/28/D.2.12

 

    The Meridian Instrument, Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, near San Jose

    1888 (1 Photograph)

 

    Linfoot E. H. John Couch Adams Astronomer, 1967

    PE/84/D.2.11

 

    Liveing, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, c.1912

    PE/43/D.2.11

 

    Lockyer Miss W. L.

    Lockyer Mr Norman

    PE/7/D.2.11

 

    Plans of Solar Tunnel at Cambridge Solar Outstation in Malta

    CO/47/D.3.12

 

    Mason Rev. A. J., 1915

    PE/12/D.2.11

 

    Maurin

    PE/45/D.2.11

 

    Maxwell James Clerk, 1881

    PE/64/Rare Books

 

    Hut south of Newall Telescope with McClean Solar Equipment, 1911

    CO/36/D.3.12

 

    Nebula Messier No. 8, 1970

    AMI/94/D.3.11

 

    Michelson Prof A. A., early 20th Century

    PE/9/D.2.11

 

    The Southern Milky Way, c.1970

    AMI/6/D.3.11

 

    3 Photographs of the Moon taken by brothers Paul and Prosper Henry

    (Telescope Makers), Paris Observatory, 1890

    AMI/98/D.3.11

 

    Photographs of Moon and Jupiter with explanatory text, 1894

    AMI/76/D.3.11

 

    Specimen Sheet (one of only 4 published) of a 5 x 5 area of the Moon's

    surface on a large scale, mid 19th Century

    AMI/97/D.3.11

 

    Various Photographs of Moon and Nebulae, 1902-1910

    AMI/91/Rare Books

 

    Album of photographs relating to the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory and

    scenery. c.1908

    TOO/35/D.2.12

 

    Photograph of Moon by Mount Wilson 100inch Telescope Mount Wilson)c.1920s

    AMI/82/D.3.11

 

    NATO, ARW Cosmical Magnetism Conference, 1993

    GP/1/D.2.10

    NATO ASI Close Binaries Conference, 1983

    GP/7/D.2.10

    NATO ASI Normal Galaxies, 1980

    GP/11/D.2.10

    NATO ASI on Supernovae, 1981

    GP/10/D.2.10

    NATO Conference, Late 1980s

    GP/15/D.2.10

    NATO Conference, 1980s

    GP/17/D.2.10

    NATO Cooling Flows Conference, 1987

    GP/6/D.2.10

    NATO Quasar Conference, 1977

    GP/12/D.2.10

 

    Newall Dome and Pavillion, c.1906

    CO/2/D.3.12

 

    Newall H. F. (reproduction print of portrait by Fiddes-Watt c. 1930)

    PE/34/D.2.11

 

    Newall H. F. (original oil painting by Fiddes-Watt c. 1930)

    Observatory Room G

 

    Newall Professor and Mrs, 1922 (taken by door of Madingley Rise)

    PE/32/D.2.11

    PE/32/D.2.11

 

    Newall Professor and Mrs, (twin portrait photographs)

    PE/32/D.2.11

    PE/32/D.2.11

 

    Newall's Coach and Horses (open top carriage)

    CO/8/D.3.12

    Newall's Coach and Horses (closed carriage)

    CO/8/D.3.12

 

    Corner of Madingley Rise

    Newall's House built 1890. Photograph taken early 20th Century.

    CO/6/D.3.12

 

    Newall's Telescope, Ferndene, Gateshead

    TOO/19/D.2.12

 

    Dewhurst

    Newall's Telescope tested in Gateshead, 1989

 

    Demolition of Newall Dome with 25inch Refractor, 1957

    CO/43/D.3.12

 

    Interior of Newall Telescope, view from East

    CO/37A/D.3.12

    CO/37B/D.3.12

 

    Early Drawings of Moon etc from observing through Mr Newall's telescope at

    Gateshead by Henry Holiday, 1870-71

    AMI/3/D.3.11

    AMI/3/A

    AMI/3/B

    AMI/3/C

    AMI/3/D

 

    Ordnance Survey (25 inch) of Obsevatory with MS annotations by H. F.

    Newall locating the Solar Physics Observatory, 1903

    CO/24/D.3.12

 

    Newton, I., engraved 1677

    PE/37/D.2.11

 

    Newton I., print (after Kneller 1689) 1867

    Library Annex

 

    Newall telescope dome with original Northumberland dome to one side (taken some time before 1934)

    CO/7/D.3.12

 

    Exterior of Northumberland dome

    (from pl. VIII of G.B. Airy 'Account of the Northumberland Equatoreal and dome attached to the Cambridge Observatory' Cambridge University Press, 1844)

    Rare Books E.10.5

 

    The Spectrum of Nova Gem., 1912

    AMI/84/D.3.11

 

    Plans of various international Observatories, c.1829

    TOO/17/D.2.12

 

    Possible competition design for an observatory

    TOO/36/D.2.12

 

    Amateur Private Observatory at Ochtertyre, Scotland

    Late 19th Century

    TOO/39/D.2.12

 

    Oort Centenary Meeting, Leiden April, 2000 : group photograph, 2000

    GP/28/D.2.10

                                                                                

    Nebula in Orion, 1884

    AMI/77/D.3.11

 

    Single Map of Nebulae etc. in Orion, c.1930

    AMI/95/D.3.11

 

    Chart of the Pacific Ocean, 1845

    AMI/73/D.3.10

 

    Paris Observatory

    TOO/31/D.2.12

 

    Part II Astrophysics, 1998-9

    GP/19/D.2.10

 

    Pattinson H.L.

    PE/40/D.2.11

 

    Perfect W.

    1803

    PE/73/Rare Books

 

    Perpetual Mechanical Calendar

    TOO/8/D.2.12

 

    Piazzi G., 1826?

    PE/36/D.2.11

 

    Piazzi J., 1746

    PE/71/Rare Books

 

    Various Planets and Nebula as seen with a Newtonian Equatorial of 13

    inches Aperture 1856

    AMI/79/D.3.11

 

    Post Recombination Universe Conference, 1987

    GP/8/D.2.10

 

    Eclipse Expedition, Pulgaon, India, 1898

    EX/2/D.3.11

 

    Radcliffe Observatory Photographs of Nebula, 1954

    TOO/26/D.2.12

 

    Ramsden Dr. J., Painted 1791

    PE/39/D.2.11

 

    Lord Rayleigh, 3rd Baron and Mathematician ad Physician at Trinity

    College, Cambridge

    PE/42/ D.2.11

 

    Preparations for eclipse expedition. Redman in foreground and T. Arthur in

    background with single mirror siderostat, 1936 Japan

    EX/10/D.3.11

 

    Celestial Photographs by Isaac Roberts

    end of 19th Century

    AMI/81/D.3.11

 

    Photograph of Stars in Cygnus by Isaac Roberts, 1887

    AMI/87/D.3.11

 

    Romer, c.1900

    PE/22/D.2.11

 

    Lord Rosse (William Parsons), mid 19th Century

    PE/3/D.2.11

 

    Ingham M. F.

    Sequence of photographs taken during the construction of the Royal

    Greenwich Observatory Building, 1988-9

    CO/21/D.3.12

 

    Photograph of eclipse expedition with 4th Earl of Rosse, Late 19th Century

    EX/13/D.3.11

 

    Birley O.

    Portrait photograph of Lord Rutherford, 1932

    PE/25/D.2.11

                                                                            

    2M Universal Reflecting Telescope at the Karl Schwarzchild Observatory,

    TOO/5/D.2.12

 

    Microphotographs of the focal images of the 15-18 inch Schmidt Cassegrain

    Telescope at St. Andrews University Observatory, 1955-60

    AMI/99/D.3.10

 

    Sheepshanks Mr. R.

    PE/50/D.2.11

 

    Sheepshanks Mr R.

    PE/67/Rare Books

 

    Sheepshanks Telescope

    First half of 20th Century

    CO/32/D.3.12

 

    Sheepshanks Telescope, 1898-1959 various views

    CO/9/D.3.12

    CO/9/D.3.12

    CO/9/D.3.12

    CO/9/D.3.12

    CO/9/D.3.12

 

    The tube of the Sheepshanks Telescope, disconnected at the elbow to show the mounting of the flat

    CO/35/D.3.12

    CO/35/D.3.12

    Short Sunderland Flying Boat, 1955

    EX/9/D.3.11

 

    Siderostat removed from Cambridge Hut in 1989 and stored at Lords Bridge

    CO/38/D.3.12

 

    Photographed by Mr V.M. Slipher Various Spectra, 1904

    TOO/21/D.2.12

 

    Smeaton John, 1790

    PE/60/Rare Books

 

    SN 1987a AAT photograph and astrometry due to David Malin and Graeme White

    AMI/100/D.3.11

 

    Solar Corona, 1956

    TOO/20/D.2.12

 

    Solar Leeman Photographs, 1918

    AMI/89/D.3.11

 

    Solar Physics Observatory

    First half of 20th Century

    CO/41/D.3.11

 

    Solar Physics Observatory, c.1910

    CO/19/D.3.12

 

    Solar Physics Observatory, c.1926

    CO/15/D.3.12

 

    36 inch Reflector in Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington, c.1911

    CO/45/D.3.12

 

    36 inch telescope at the Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, c.1930

    CO/29/D.3.12

 

    The team of the total eclipse of the sun, Solar Physics Observatory

    Expedition to Japan, 1936

    EX/14/D.3.11  

                                                         

    Photographed by E. W. Tattersall

    The Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge, c.1913

    CO/28/D.3.12

 

    Spectoral Plates in region of 4250, 1911

    CO/44/D.3.12

 

    Spectrograph for Eclipse expedition, c1920/30s

    TOO/33/D.2.12

 

    Diagram of spectrometer made in 1959 in observatory workshop

    CO/48/D.3.12                                                                              

 

    Mr Stanley's Retirement, 1953/4

    GP/5/D.2.10

 

    Coloured Illustrations of Stella Spectra, c.1870

    AMI/96/D.3.11

 

    The 90 inch reflector of Steward Observatory at its Kitt Peak Station, 1969

    AMI/7/D.3.11

 

    Stockholm IAU, 1938

    GP/21/D.3.12

 

    Mr F.J.M. Stratton at Japan Eclipse,  c.1936

    EX/11/D.3.11

 

    Total Eclipse photograph sent from Royal Observatory Greenwich to F.J.M.

    Stratton at Caius College, 1920/30s

    AMI

 

    Struve F. G. W., c.1857

    PE/87/D.2.11

 

    Geometrical landscape with tables of relative altitudes from River Thames

    to principal edifices, 1828

    AMI/27/D.3.10

 

    Photographed by Sword R.

    The Three Mirror Telescope, Institute of Astronomy, 1991

    CO/51/D.3.12

 

    Address to Sir Joseph John Thomson, 1936

    PE/33/D.2.11

 

    Thompson J.J., 1924

    PE/53/D.2.11

 

    Thomson J. J., 1922

    PE/26/D.2.11

 

 

    Thomson J. J., 1913

    PE/61/Rare Books

 

    Tycho Brahe, c.1900

    PE/24/D.2.11

 

    Unidentified Graphs

    AMI/75/D.3.10

 

    Unidentified Group Photographs

    GP/20/D.2.10

 

    Unidentified Portraits from upstairs

    PE/82/Rare Books

 

    Unidentified Portraits

    PE/46/D.2.11

 

    Unidentified Refractor, Late 19th Century

    TOO/38/D.2.12

 

    The Victoria Telescope at the Cape Observatory, c.1897

    TOO/15/D.2.12

 

    Vince Samuel, Plumian Professor of Astronomy, University of Cambridge,c.1821

    PE/57/Rare Books

 

    Von Kluber Expedition, Sweden,1954

    EX/3/D.3.11

 

    Contact copy of original plate showing Eclipse seen on Von Kluber Lapland

    expedition

    EX/5/D.3.11

 

    Wallace A. R., 1916

    PE/6/D.2.11

 

    Ward J. Professor of Mental Philosophy and Logic at University of Cambridge

    PE/29/D.2.11

 

    Spectrograph from Warner Observatory, Rochester, New York, c.1900

    TOO/32/D.2.12

 

    Various charts of the world to accompany Mr Whewells paper on the Tides,

    c.1831

    AMI/74/D.3.10

 

    W.H. Steavenson photographed with the Yerkes 40 inch telescope, 1928

    TOO/25/D.2.12 (Steavenson)

    TOO/25/D.2.12 (Unknown astronomer)

 

    Prism Spectrograph on 40 inch Refractor, Yerkes

    TOO/34/D.2.12

 

    Photographs of the Moon and Nebulae from Yerkes Observatory taken by

    Ritchley, Barnard et al., c.1900 (6 Photographs and 2 Mounts of text)

    Provenance: Given to Sir H. Jeffreys

    AMI