Royal Observatory, Kew
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Kew Observatory papers, 1829 - 1911
Kew Observatory solar photographs, 1858 - 1872
RGO 67 largely consists of a good run of contact prints from glass plate negatives of the sun produced between January 1862 and January 1872. The most significant breaks are December 1862-May 1863 and August-September 1872. Additionally there are a handful of glass plate negatives and contact prints produced in 1858-9, and one further negative dated 1866. The sequence of images is essentially continued by RGO 51: RO and RGO Solar Plates Contact Prints.
Kew Observatory sunspot observations, 1858 - 1897
RGO 57 contains drawings of sunspots showing their development, size and grouping, with tables recording the number of sunspots for each year.
Sunspot drawings of H.S. Schwabe, 1869 - 1880
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The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.

