1.5-inch refracting telescope
Date: circa 1900
Inventory Number: 1989-4-0014
Classification: Telescope
Subject:
Maker: French
Owner: Frances W. Wright (1897 - 1989)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
closed: 5.5 × 5.5 × 25.5 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 × 10 1/16 in.)
fully extended: 5.4 × 5.4 × 74 cm (2 1/8 × 2 1/8 × 29 1/8 in.)
Description:
Portable brass telescope with three draw tubes. The tube is covered with leather near the eyepiece end. The objective end has a sun shade and a dust cap. The sun shade consists of a sleeve screwed to a collar that slides on the tube.
Lens aperture is 1.5 inch (4 cm).
Lens aperture is 1.5 inch (4 cm).
SignedLens cap stamped: MADE IN FRANCE
ProvenanceFrances W. Wright, Harvard College Observatory; gift to CHSI by her estate with the aid of Martha Hazen, 1989.