Instruments

INSTRUMENTS

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

Time-related instruments

Calender:
  • Perpetual Calender

Meridian Room:

  • Observatory Museum

Clocks:

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

Navigational instruments

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

Miscellaneous instruments

  • 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.

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