Observatory Collection

200-inch observatory at Palomar, drawn by Russell Porter, 1938. ?The glass giant of Palomar? by David O Woodbury. 1940. pp.304-5 Date: 1938

Observatory at Delhi
Observatory complex at Delhi

No enemy sub will dare lift its eye if you lend your Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb binoculars to the Navy pack carefully, include your name and address : send to Naval Observatory Washington D.C

Chicago Board of Trade Building and Observatory, USA Date: circa 1940s

Clocks at Greenwich
Left, Synchronome Free Pendulum at Greenwich Observatory, with right, the Slave Clock which performs its escapement function, accurate to 1/100th second

Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich Royal Observatory, with its dome to the forefront of the postcard

Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Scotland
Observatory on the summit of Ben Nevis, Fort William, Scotland Date: 1908

Great telescope at Yerkes Observatory, USA
Great telescope at Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Greenwich Observatory, south east London
Watercolour painting of Greenwich Observatory in south east London, viewed from the side with two children playing on the grass, by Henrietta Grace Baden Powell (nee Smyth, 1824-1914)

Hipparchus / Figuier
HIPPARCHUS/ASTRONOMER Greek astronomer who flourished 146 - 127 BC

Alexandria Observatory
Alexandria observatory : an astronomer using a pre- telescopic sighting instrument

Galileo / Padua / Observtry
his observatory at Padova (Padua)

Saturn in 1874
Saturn observed by L. Trouvelot from a French observatory

Greenwich / Magnetic Clock
A young well-dressed couple admire the magnetic clock outside Greenwich Royal Observatory. Date: 19th Century

Roger Bacon / Verhas
ROGER BACON Scientist and scholar looking across the rooftops of Oxford from his monastic observatory

Astronomy / Greenwich 1911
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The Astronomer Royal, Mr Frank Dyson, taking a reading with an altazimuth (a theodolite for determining the altitudes and azimuths of the heavens)

Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich Royal Observatory " belonging to the Kings Professor of Astronomy", showing Greenwich Park in the foreground and ships on the Thames to the left

New Lodge or White Lodge, Richmond Park, seat of Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth. Hunting lodge designed by the Earl of Pembroke for King George I

Great Equatorial Telescope at Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The Great Equatorial Telescope at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, England. Date: circa 1930s

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, London - The Great Equatorial Telescope. Date: late 1930s

The Einstein Tower - Observatory at Potsdam, Germany
The Einstein Tower - an astrophysical observatory in the Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam, Germany built by architect Erich Mendelsohn

Ben Nevis Observatory - Victorian period Date: late 19th century

Greenwich Observatory

Greenwich Observatory and Time Ball Victorian period

Ben Nevis Observatory

Ben Nevis Meteorological Observatory Victorian period

Two foot reflecting telescope, Yerkes Observatory, Wisconsin, USA - early 1900s

Yerkes Observatory two foot reflecting telescope

Ben Nevis Observatory, Scotland, Victorian period

Imperial Observatory, Beijing, China, early 1900s

Parc de Montsouris, Le Bardo, Paris, France - showing a reproduction of the Palace of the Bey of Tunis from the 1867 Exhibition

Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U. S. S. R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer
Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U.S.S.R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Date: 1950s

The Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, St. Petersburg
Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory U.S.S.R. - The observatory was opened in 1839, brainchild of astronomer, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. Date: 1950s

Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase, HMS Medina
Queen Mary's Personal Secretaire Bookcase - The Royal Yacht, HMS Medina, 1911-1912 Coronation Expedition to India for the Durbar. Designed and made for Her Majesty by Waring and Gillow

Greenwich Observatory - Telescope Date: 1925

Deer in Greenwich Park, SE London Date: 1905

Sydney as Macquarie Left It
This panorama was taken from the Observatory Hill. To the left one is looking towards the Heads and to the right over the City

Sydney as Macquarie Found It
A painting depiction of Sydney, circa 1809, as Governor Lachlan Macquarie found it. On the left hand side is Government House and its garden

Bristol - Cabot Tower and the Clifton Suspension Bridge (viewed from the Observatory). Date: 1910

Bidston Hill, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. The summit and distance marker and Bidston Observatory. Date: 1913

The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, SE London Date: circa 1900

Observatory Island, Weihaiwei, Wehai, China
Vintage c.1900 photograph: Observatory Island, Weihaiwei, Wehai, China

Peking (Beijing) Observatory, China c. 1870 s
Astronomical instruments, Peking (Beijing) Observatory, China c.1870 s

Peking (Beijing) Observatory, China, c. 1870
Astronomical Instrument, Peking (Beijing) Observatory, China, c.1870

Greenwich Observatory
View of the entrance to Greenwich Observatory in 1840. The Observatory was founded on 22 June 1675. Date: 1875

The Royal Academy, Covent Garden and the British Museum. The Royal Academy founded in 1768 in Somerset House 67, woman with black servant shopping for flowers in Covent Garden market 68

The Royal Observatory or Flamsteed House, Greenwich Park. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd

Canadian 15th Battalion 48th Highlanders, 3rd Bde Memorial
This commemorates the Battle of Mount Sorrel, Observatory Ridge, and has a bas relief map of the action of 2 June 1916. It was unveiled on 22 October 2011. Date: 2016

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