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Astronomical telescopes

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

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Papers on the Equatorial Group Telescopes, 1955 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/926
Scope and Contents

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
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the I.N.T. Users Group, 1972

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 11/4
Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding the Isaac Newton Telescope Users Group, comprising a circular letter from E.M. Burbidge to interested parties asking if an informal group would be of interest to them; replies to Mrs Burbidge, most of which are in favour of her suggestion; agenda and invitations to the meetings of 24 January 1973, 3 October 1973 and 6 November 1974; reports of meetings of the informal group; a list of Isaac Newton Telescope users; and copies of domestic instructions to...
Dates: 1972
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Large Telescope Users' Panel, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 12/59
Scope and Contents

A letter from K. Tweedie, Science Research Council, to Dr Hunter, 2 April 1973, requesting copies of the Large Telescope Users' Panel report presented in May 1972, as well as grant/telescope time applications. He encloses tables of allocations of time on the Isaac Newton Telescope and 74-inch telescope during 1971-1972; the report of the eleventh meeting of the L.T.U.P on 17 March 1972, with an appendix; and the appendix to the Panel's report on the tenth meeting, 16 November 1971.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Schmidt Telescope, 1958 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/145
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and other papers regarding the Schmidt Telescope.

Dates: 1958 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp 36-inch Telescope., 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 9/143
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and other papers regarding the Yapp 36-inch Telescope.

Dates: 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Spectrograph, 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/928
Scope and Contents

Two drawings by A. Morris of the proposed mounting for the image intensifier for the Yapp Spectrograph.

Dates: 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Telescope, 1958 - 1960

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/922
Scope and Contents Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Yapp 36-inch Reflecting Telescope, concerned primarily with the two Schmidt cameras on the Yapp grating spectrograph. There is correspondence between G.E. Manville; G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; the Admiralty; B.E.J. Pagel; Sir Richard Woolley; and R. Atkinson. There are also queries arising from the ordering of equipment and its design, and drawings of mirrors for the Cassegrain collimator, the f3.5 spherical mirror, the f3.5...
Dates: 1958 - 1960
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Telescope, 1958 - 1961

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/923
Scope and Contents Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Yapp 36-inch Reflecting Telescope and the 30-inch Reflecting Telescope, concerned primarily with Cassegrain grating spectrographs, and including minutes of a meeting and designs for the apparatus. The papers also include correspondence between G.E. Manville; G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; Bausch and Lomb; H. Butler of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh; the United States Naval Observatory; B.E.J. Pagel; Sir Richard Woolley; and...
Dates: 1958 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Telescope, 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/924
Scope and Contents

Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Yapp 36-inch Reflecting Telescope, including drawings of mirrors for the collimator, with a note by P.E.J. Pagel and Sir Richard Woolley.

Dates: 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Telescope, 1956 - 1962

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/925
Scope and Contents Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Yapp 36-inch Reflecting Telescope and the 30-inch Reflecting Telescope, concerned primarily with spectrographs and covering several topics, including Fehrenbach prisms for a proposed Schmidt telescope, the Schmidt Camera, the 30-inch telescope Coudé spectrograph and the Isaac Newton Telescope spectrograph. There is correspondence between Hilger and Watts; Chance-Pilkington; Parra-Mantois; the Admiralty; G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and...
Dates: 1956 - 1962
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Papers on the Yapp Telescope, 1957 - 1958

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/927
Scope and Contents Papers regarding the refurbishment of the Yapp 36-inch Reflecting Telescope and the 30-inch Reflecting Telescope. Much of the material relates to the Cassegrain Spectrograph and the Schmidt Camera. There is correspondence on the design and construction of these items between G.M. Sisson of Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd; E.H. Linfoot of Cambridge University; the National Physical Laboratory; and B.E.J. Pagel and Sir Richard Woolley of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. The papers also...
Dates: 1957 - 1958
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Photographic Zenith Tube: Records, c.1940s-1980s

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 103
Scope and Contents

The PZT papers include: five boxes of Dudley S. Perfect and PZT papers; two observer's notebooks (1982-1983); three fault repair notebooks (c.1973-1983); a PZT 'phase slips and clock repair book' (1975); and PZT plate records.

Dates: c.1940s-1980s
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RD: Instrus. Dev. and Gen. User, 1971 - 1978

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/1/RD1
Scope and Contents

A set of 39 technical drawings, originally rolled together and labelled 'RD Instrus. [Instruments] Dev. and Gen. User, Drg Nos AZ/002, X/BA/001, X/BB/001 and V/FD/000'. Includes V, X, Y and Z sized sheets, V being the largest. Many (if not all) relate to instruments designed for the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, including drawings of the Image Photon Counting System (I.P.C.S) which was first used in March 1984.

Dates: 1971 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Report of the Large Telescope Users' Panel meeting, 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 12/58
Scope and Contents

Report of the fourteenth meeting of the Large Telescope Users' Panel on 9 April 1973, regarding instrumentation, applications for I.N.T. (Isaac Newton Telescope) time, applications for 74-inch time and applications for time on South African Astronomical Observatory telescopes, with tables on nights allocated on the I.N.T. and 74-inch telescope.

Dates: 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Review of the Schmidt Telescope Unit, 1976

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 12/64
Scope and Contents

A copy of the Annual Review of the U.K. Schmidt Telescope Unit prepared by Dr R.D. Cannon, presented for comment to the Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time of the Astronomy, Space and Radio Board, Science Research Council.

Dates: 1976
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RGO Danjon Astrolabe papers, 1958 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 87
Scope and Contents The Danjon Astrolabe is a highly specialised instrument developed in the 1950s for use as an alternative to conventional transit instruments, which had many sources of potential error. In July 1959, a Danjon astrolabe (OPL No.9) was brought into service at the RGO Herstmonceux under the direction of C. A. Murray, primarily in order to extend the study of its effectiveness in determining corrections to the catalogue positions of bright stars. Before commencing operations, the method of...
Dates: 1958 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RGO La Palma Operations Division and the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory: Papers and Records, c.1980-2015 (mainly to 1998)

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 100
Scope and Contents

Papers, records and photographs for the RGO La Palma Operations Division and the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory. Includes paper files recording day to day administration, a large series of photographic records in albums, various sets of publications relating to telescopes and instruments and a small set of press cuttings.

Dates: c.1980-2015 (mainly to 1998)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO
Scope and Contents The RGO archives collection is now deposited in the University Library and consists of all the surviving historical paper records of the Royal Observatory from 1675 until circa 1980, though many later records are held and the collection accrues as material is deposited. The records are public records under the 1958 Public Records Act and are subject to the provisions of the 1958 and 1967 Acts, including the 'thirty-year rule'; at present all records created before 1992 January 01 are open...
Dates: 1675 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Royal Observatory, Greenwich and R.G.O. History Papers (including Philip S. Laurie Papers), 1761-c.1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107
Scope and Contents Files relating to the history of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and RGO, Herstmonceux, compiled and in many cases, created by, Philip Stevenson Laurie. Laurie worked at the ROG/RGO from 1935 to 1977, beginning as a Temporary Computer before going on to become the Head of the Solar Department. While most of his career involved solar work, Laurie also had a passion for ROG/RGO history and became increasingly involved with the RGO’s Archives. On 1 October 1974, he was transferred to full-time...
Dates: 1761-c.1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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RY: Old INT Miscellaneous, 1961-1978 (bulk) and 1983

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/1/RY4
Scope and Contents

A set of 160 technical drawings relating to the Isaac Newton Telescope at RGO Herstmonceux. Many are untitled. Originally rolled together in four rolls marked 'RY Old INT Miscellaneous, 1st system Nos. not m/f'. Includes a set of miscellaneous sized drawings, followed by three sets of drawings of sheet sizes X, Y and Z, Z being the smallest.

Dates: 1961-1978 (bulk) and 1983
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Scientific Papers, H. Grubb', 1878 - 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 113/2/2
Scope and Contents

Red bound volume of 19 printed scientific papers by Howard Grubb, each presented or published between 1878-1905. The volume begins with a handwritten index.

Dates: 1878 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Scientific Papers, T. Grubb', 1857-1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 113/2/1
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Red bound volume of 33 printed scientific papers primarily by Howard Grubb and Thomas Grubb, but also by Warren de la Rue and others, each presented or published between 1857-1905. The volume begins with a handwritten index.

Dates: 1857-1905
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Scrapbook relating to the career of Tom Broadbent at Grubb Parsons, compiled c.1982

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 113/4/2
Scope and Contents Family scrapbook recording Broadbent's career for Grubb Parsons, including photographs, official documents (including travel passes) and handwritten explanatory notes by Broadbent [and a son/daughter]. It covers: 1. Broadbent's 1938 visit to Mount 'Pop Ivan', Poland, and the opening day of the Observatory there. Broadbent had designed the dome and telescope there and was sent by Grubb Parsons to complete the telescope mounting. He personally did the electrical wiring and fitted...
Dates: compiled c.1982
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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William Herschel Telescope Papers and Records, 1979 - 1995

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 106
Scope and Contents Papers and photographs recording the planning and manufacture of the William Herschel Telescope for La Palma Observatory. A series of photograph albums provides a record of the manufacture of the telescope. These include photographs recording the preparation of the 4.2m mirror, and manufacturers' photographs of the mount, tube, mechanical drives and control panels. Paper records include review panel papers (including papers on costs and specifications, etc.),...
Dates: 1979 - 1995
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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XA: Anglo-Australian Telescope drawings [AAT], c. 1970-1988 (bulk: 1970-1976)

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 101/1/XA
Scope and Contents

A set of technical drawings of the Anglo-Australian Telescope, originally in seven rolls labelled 'XA AAT'. Includes V, W, X, Y and Z sized sheets and two additional sets: one labelled 'mixed size sheets + MZ' comprised of electricity supply drawings by contractors and another originally wrapped in paper titled 'A.A.T. Exposure Meter'. Also included is a set of prints of drawings of the AAT Coudé Spectrograph, originally folded in a package titled 'XA A.A.T. Spec. (Prints)'.

Dates: c. 1970-1988 (bulk: 1970-1976)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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