William Christie, Astronomer Royal
RH says.... This was the half-mirror spectroscope designed by Christie himself - if you click on the 28-inch link above you will see a photograph of Maunder using it.
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Joining the 2009 International Year of Astronomy's Cosmic Diary project, this blog transcribes 19th-century working journals kept by the Astronomer Royal and Chief Assistant of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Transcription and comments are provided by a 21st-century curator working on the same site.
Cosmic Diary: Greenwich 1894
Contributing to the 2009 International Year of Astronomy's Cosmic Diary, this blog reproduces the 1894 working Journals of the Astronomer Royal and Chief Assistant of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with comments from Rebekah Higgitt, a Curator at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The writers are:
William H.M. Christie (Astronomer Royal 1881-1910)
Herbert Hall Turner (Chief Assistant 1881-1894)
Frank Watson Dyson (Chief Assistant 1894-1905)
The manuscripts are at the Manuscripts Department of the University of Cambridge Library (ref: RGO 7/29-30) and reproduced by kind permission of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
William H.M. Christie (Astronomer Royal 1881-1910)
Herbert Hall Turner (Chief Assistant 1881-1894)
Frank Watson Dyson (Chief Assistant 1894-1905)
The manuscripts are at the Manuscripts Department of the University of Cambridge Library (ref: RGO 7/29-30) and reproduced by kind permission of the Science and Technology Facilities Council and the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
Notes pages
- 28-inch telescope
- Altazimuth Pavilion
- Astrographic dome & telescope
- Board of Visitors
- Christie's staffing scheme
- Great Equatorial
- Lassell telescope & dome
- New Physical Observatory
- Sheepshanks Equatorial
- Sir Henry Thompson & his telescopes
- Staff of the Royal Observatory in 1894
- Women at the Royal Observatory
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- I am a historian of science and a curator at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, part of the National Maritime Museum.
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