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Astronomical telescopes

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

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Papers on the Equatorial Group Telescopes, 1955 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/926
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Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Equatorial Group Telescopes, concerned principally with the photometry telescope planned for installation in Dome 'C' and discussing the most suitable type of telescope. There are correspondence and memoranda of R.O. Redman of the Cambridge Observatories, B.E.J. Pagel and Sir Richard Woolley; notes and calculations by Pagel; and a graph of results obtained using the Cambridge Schmidt Camera, dated 22-23 May 1955.

Dates: 1955 - 1962
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