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] It was transferred to 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]
See also
- Aerial telescope
- Edward Troughton
- Peter Dollond
- Great refractors
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
External links
- Image of Shuckburgh's telescope at London Science Museum and print of the telescope, general view, Ingenious
- Illustration of the Shuckburgh telescope circa 1816 at the Royal Observatory, from Andrews, A. D. (1996), "Cyclopaedia of Telescope Makers Part 6 (Sin-Syk)", Irish Astronomical Journal 23 (2): 215–242, Bibcode:1996IrAJ...23..215A