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  <dc:title>Plate, spiral nebula observed in April 1851 by [William Parsons]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Two versions of the same figure showing an S-shaped spiral nebula observed by Parsons on 27 April 1851. The nebulae are drawn in graphite. The nebula corresponds to number 1061 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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>[1861]</dc:date>
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