Friday, 25 August 2023

A Cooke telescope for a Cambridgeshire Banker

 Algernon Peckover FRAS (1803-1894) was a banker from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and in 1864 he purchased a Thomas Cooke & Sons 5.5 inch telescope.

There were 5 astronomical eyepieces and it came with a plain equatorial mounting. The cost was £130 (today 2023 that would be £21,100).

In 1865 he purchased a driving clock for the equatorial.




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