Friday, 16 February 2024

A Cooke telescope for a steel merchant in Doncaster in1858

 The steel manufacturer and merchant Charles Daniel Doncaster from Broomhall Park Sheffield purchased from Thomas Cooke & Sons in 1858 a 3.25 inch telescope on a tall tripod, with steadying rods, finder, three astronomical eyepieces and one terrestrial pancratic eyepiece, plus vertical and horizontal slow motions.



                                                        www.theramblingastronomer.co.uk

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