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Description: | Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens by Charles Tully, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting by George Dollond and clockwork drive. Made for Captain W.H.Smyth in 1828, who observed from Bedford and gave the telescope to Dr John Lee of Hartwell House near Stone, Aylesbury. Sold by Lee's executors to Royal Observatory, Greenwich for use in 1874 transit of Venus. Used at the Hong Kong Observatory from 1888 until 1914 when it was returned to Greenwich. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | telescope - refracting | Temporal: | 1829 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Troughton and Simms | Identifier: | http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/grab... | Go to resource |
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