Tuesday, 6 February 2024

A Thomas Cooke telescope for Belgrave Square in 1859

 Sir Thomas Cunningham of Eaton Place Belgrave Square London purchased in 1858 from Thomas Cooke & Sons a universal 3.5 equatorial telescope.

 Later in 1859 he purchased from Cookes an equatorial mounting with tangent screw motion on a tripod for the latitude of Great Britain.



                                                         www.theramblingastronomer.co.uk

No comments:

Post a Comment