Shuckburgh telescope
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The Shuckburgh telescope or Shuckburgh equatorial refracting telescope was a 4.1 inch diameter aperture telescope on a equatorial mount
completed in 1791 for Sir George Shuckburgh (1751–1804) in Warwickshire, England, and built by British instrument maker Jesse Ramsden
(1735–1800). It was transferred to Royal Observatory, Greenwich
in 1811 and the London Science Museum in 1929. Even though it was not particularly successful, it was one of the larger achromatic doublet telescopes at the time, and one of the largest to have an equatorial mount.
Equatorial mount
An equatorial mount is a mount for instruments that follows the rotation of the sky by having one rotational axis parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation. This type of mount is used for astronomical telescopes and cameras...
completed in 1791 for Sir George Shuckburgh (1751–1804) in Warwickshire, England, and built by British instrument maker Jesse Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden FRSE was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker.Ramsden was born at Salterhebble, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. After serving his apprenticeship with a cloth-worker in Halifax, he went in 1755 to London, where in 1758 he was apprenticed to a...
(1735–1800). It was transferred to Royal Observatory, Greenwich
Royal Observatory, Greenwich
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich , in London, England played a major role in the history of astronomy and navigation, and is best known as the location of the prime meridian...
in 1811 and the London Science Museum in 1929. Even though it was not particularly successful, it was one of the larger achromatic doublet telescopes at the time, and one of the largest to have an equatorial mount.