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Details
An impressive mid 19th-Century 5-inch cadastral telescope,
signed Carl Zeiss Jena Nr6318, the 123cm. long barrel painted white, with ray-shade and dust-cover (jammed), adjustable counterpoise weight, star finder and rack and pinion adjustment to the eyepiece, on a complex clockwork alt-azimuth mounting with winding key, raised on a narrow pyramidal oak stand with base platform, three adjustable screw feet and castors, with one straight Huygenian eyepiece, x50, two prismatic eyepieces, and a triple rotating eyepiece
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signed Carl Zeiss Jena Nr6318, the 123cm. long barrel painted white, with ray-shade and dust-cover (jammed), adjustable counterpoise weight, star finder and rack and pinion adjustment to the eyepiece, on a complex clockwork alt-azimuth mounting with winding key, raised on a narrow pyramidal oak stand with base platform, three adjustable screw feet and castors, with one straight Huygenian eyepiece, x50, two prismatic eyepieces, and a triple rotating eyepiece
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Provenance
Presented to Lindsay Kaye-Eddie by Queen Victoria in 1860 on his appointment as Astronomer Royal of the Southern Hemisphere; thence by descent. Used by Kaye-Eddie to discover the "Eddie Comet" in 1890.
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