RefNo | PT/62/8/39 |
Level | Item |
Title | Plate, figures 24-34 showing nebulae and stars by Mitchell, B [Bindon Blood] Stoney, and S Hunter |
Date | [1861] |
Description | Figures 24-34 from plate XXVIII showing 11 nebulae discussed in Parsons' paper. The nebulae are drawn in graphite. Figures 24-25, 27-30, and 34 were drawn by Mitchell, figures 26 and 33 by Stoney, and 31-32 by Hunter. The nebulae correspond, respectively, to numbers 1337, 1385, 1392, 1414-1415, 1441, 1589, 1650, 1713, 1906-1906, 1946, 1968, and 2075 in William Herschel's catalogue of nebulae.
Subject: Scientific Instruments / Astronomy
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the construction of specula of six-feet aperture; and a selection from the observations of nebulæ made with them'.
Received by the Royal Society on 5 June 1861. Read 20 June 1861. |
Extent | 1p |
Format | Drawing |
PhysicalDescription | Graphite drawings on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1860.0078 |
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1861.0029 |
RelatedRecord | RR/4/219 |
RR/4/220 |
PT/62/8/3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8084 | Parsons; William (1800 - 1867); 3rd Earl of Rosse | 1800 - 1867 |
NA6641 | Stoney; Bindon Blood (1828 - 1909) | 1828 - 1909 |