- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford, in 1934.
- Object type
- Astronomical camera
- Inventory No
- 81324
- Accession Number
- 1934-9
Description
Astronomical camera made for Warren De la Rue to take photographs of the moon by means of wet-collodion photography. It was attached to his 13-inch reflecting telescope (73180, etc), probably the first telescope specially designed for astronomical photography. There are two other cameras associated with the telescope.
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