Optical accessories to telescopes

Cameras:

• "Old" Astrometric camera.
• "New" Astrometric camera.
• Dallmeyer Photoheliograph
• Baker - Nunn camera
• Pixelvision camera.
• Photometric cameras.
• Mars Cameras: "Longer" Mars Camera
•                       "Shorter" Mars Camera
• Scmidt camera.
• Sirius camera.

Eyepieces:

• Finsen Eyepiece Interferometer.

Filters:

• Solar Eclipse viewing strip.

Spectroscope:

• Four-prism Spectrograph.
• Spectroscope at the Observatory Museum in Grahamstown.
• Browning Spectrograph
• Evans Spectrograph
• Jena Grating Spectrograph.

Calender:

• Perpetual Calender

Meridian Room:

• Observatory Museum

Clocks:

• Quarts Clock
• Tachard Clock
• Harrison Clock
• Crystal Clock

• Sextant
• Sextant used by Moffat.
• Sextant used by Maclear.
• Sextant & case.

• Askania diaphram photometer.
• Blink Microscope.
• Danjon prismatic astrolabe.
• Foucalt Pendulum at the Albany Museum.
• Foucalt Pendulum at the Universtiy of the Orange Free State.
• Kinetheodolite.
• Loebl micro densimeter.
• Olifantsfontein Laser Transmitter.
• Pye microscope.

Interesting Links:
Link to Objects Lost and / or Found.
Link to a short History of Astronomy in Southern Africa.
Link to a Time Line to see how Events on this page relates to the bigger time dimension.
Link to view the Achievements and other Interesting Aspects of Southern African Astronomers.
Link to the Telescope Manufacturers
Link to the Main Bibliography Section and more information about Sources.

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