Saturday 12 June 2021

An Italian Cooke

 

NEW OBSERVATORY IN CATANIA.


This observatory in Sicily which was completed in 1890 is principally for astrophysics, celestial photography, meteorology and seismology. There is a 6-inch Cooke fitted with photographic apparatus; Huggins's apparatus for photographing the solar corona; Mascart's apparatus for photographing atmospherical electricity, &c.

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