Observatories with Cooke Telescopes
I
know I am often going on about how good Cooke telescopes are and
depending on your nationality you might have a different view. The
American would go for Alvan Clark telescopes while the Germans would
say that Zeiss telescopes were superior, but I always believe the
best were Cooke telescopes.
I
came across this interesting little survey from 1866 and while it
does not claim to exhaustive it is fascinating. I could not believe
these facts when I first saw them.
The
survey was of 48 private observatories in Britain and indicated that
40 had refractors while only 8 had reflectors, an interesting fact in
itself and showing how popular refractors were compared to
reflectors.
Of
those 40 surveyed
12
were equipped with Cooke telescopes
The
next nearest telescope makers with just 3 were Alan Clark (USA),
Troughton, Goddard, Slugg and Slater.
Although
this list does not suggest to be complete it does give an indication
of how popular Cooke telescopes were.
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