Shuckburgh telescope

The Shuckburgh telescope or Shuckburgh equatorial refracting telescope was a 4.1 inch diameter aperture telescope on an equatorial mount completed in 1791 for Sir George Shuckburgh (1751–1804) in Warwickshire, England, and built by British instrument maker Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800).[1][2][3][4][5] It was transferred to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in 1811 and the London Science Museum in 1929.[2] Even though it was not particularly successful, its design was influential.[3] It was one of the larger achromatic doublet telescopes at the time, and one of the largest to have an equatorial mount.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Winterhalter, Albert Gustavus (1889), The International Astrophotographic Congress and a Visit to Certain European Observatories and Other Institutions: Report to the Superintendent [of the U.S. Naval Observatory]. Washington observations for 1885. Appendix I, U.S. Government Printing Office, p. 151.
  2. 1 2 3 McConnell, Anita (2007), "Sir George Shuckburgh's Observatory", Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800): London's Leading Scientific Instrument Maker, Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 135–137, ISBN 9780754661368.
  3. 1 2 Andrews, A. D. (1996), "Cyclopaedia of Telescope Makers Part 5 (Sae-Sim)", Irish Astronomical Journal 23 (1): 57–117, Bibcode:1996IrAJ...23...57A. The Shuckburgh telescope is described on p. 99.
  4. ↑ Hingley, Peter D. (2013). "The Shuckburghs of Shuckburgh, Isaac Fletcher, and the History of the English Mounting". The Antiquarian Astronomer (Society for the History of Astronomy) 7: 17–40. Bibcode:2013AntAs...7...17H. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  5. ↑ Anita, McConnell (2013). "Jesse Ramsden: the Craftsman who Believed that Big was Beautiful". The Antiquarian Astronomer (Society for the History of Astronomy) 7: 41–53. Bibcode:2013AntAs...7...41M. Retrieved 21 February 2016.

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