Lord Rosse's 72 inch (1.8m) reflecting telescope

Lord Rosse's 72 inch (1.8m) reflecting telescope, 1849. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867) Irish astronomer and engineer, built the then largest telescope on his estate at Parsonstown, Ireland. With it he discovered 15 spiral nebulae, and named the Crab nebula. From his paper On the Construction of Specula [Mirrors] of Six-feet Aperture... from Philosohical Transactions of the Royal Society, (London, 1849). Engraving

Aperture Astronomer Astronomical Crab Discovered Inch Nebula Nebulae Parsons Parsonstown Reflecting Rosse Spiral Telescope Transactions

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