7.25-inch telescope,Sydney Observatory. This refracting telescope,on an equatorial mount,was made by the German company Georg Merz and Sons. It arrived at Sydney Observatory,Sydney,Australia,in 1861. The observatory had been established only a few years earlier in 1858. Used for a variety of observations,from 1890 to 1947 this telescope was used as a guide telescope for the Sydney astrographic observation program. Photographed by Australian photographer Charles Bayliss (1850-1897). Bayliss was commissioned by the observatory in the 1880s and 1890s to document the building and its equipment | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Royal Astronomical Society |
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