. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 21.—Equatorial mounting for a refracting telescope, adjustable for use at any latitude, made by Alvan Clark & Sons, and described by William R. Dawes in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. From Monthly Notices, vol. 20 (1859-1860), p. 62. had belonged originally to Thomas William Webb (). The college authorities purchased the telescope in 1886, in preparation for the solar eclipse of that Soon thereafter the 5/2-inch aperture Clark ob- jective was remounted and used in conjunction with a heliostat
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 21.—Equatorial mounting for a refracting telescope, adjustable for use at any latitude, made by Alvan Clark & Sons, and described by William R. Dawes in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. From Monthly Notices, vol. 20 (1859-1860), p. 62. had belonged originally to Thomas William Webb (). The college authorities purchased the telescope in 1886, in preparation for the solar eclipse of that Soon thereafter the 5/2-inch aperture Clark ob- jective was remounted and used in conjunction with a heliostat to feed 208a Stonyhurst College Observatory, Results of Meteorological, Magnetical and Solar Observations (1886), pp. 6-7. 284-281 O—€ 91. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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