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• File:One of four diapositive photographs in passe partout frame showing the Moon, originals taken by Warren De La Rue using the Kew photoheliograph.
• File:One of four diapositive photographs in passe partout frame showing the Sun during the partial phase of the 1860 solar eclipse viewed from Northern Spain. Originals taken by Warren De La Rue using the Kew photoheliograph.
• File:Glass prism with lugs, mounted at end of brass tube with threaded flange, used by Sir William Herschel in experiments on thermal radiation in the solar spectrum. (See note)
• File:Armillary sphere on brass twined stand 6 1/2 in diameter at base brass diameter of meridian 9 1/4 inches outside German 16th century
• File:Mechanical planetarium slide for magic lantern
• File:Nocturnal boxwood and brass, by Robert Yeff, Bristol, England, dated 1702. Owner and user thought to be E. Dartnell
• File:Brass Gregorian reflecting telescope of 3-inch aperture by John Cuthbert, London with altazimuth mount a claw foot stand with adjustable feet.
• File:Brass Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 3/4-inch aperture by Edward Nairne, London on altazimuth mounting with claw foot tripod.
• File:Gregorian reflecting Telescope of 2 3/4 inch aperture by George Adams, London with a shagreen covered tube on an altazimuth mounting with a folding claw foot tripod.
• File:3" Gregorian reflecting telescope, on brass tripod, folding table stand, by W and S. Jones, date about 1800, focal length 13", 2 eyepieces
• File:Arabic celestial globe and frame, 5 3/4-inch diameter, bronze marked with silver studs, on wooden stand (RAS No.90), unsigned, 1601-1700. Presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1877.
• File:Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/8 inch aperture with shagreen covered tube.
• File:Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/2 inch aperture and a 16 inch focal length of 16 inches by John Cuff, London, on an altazimuth stand with folding claw foot tripod.
• File:Wooden horary quadrant (25-cm radius) with painted scales, Islamic script, unsigned, Persia, 1701-1800.
• File:Brass Cassegrain reflecting telescope of 3 inch apertureby James Watson, London with altazimuth mount on a claw foot stand. Acessories include, a finder telescope, 2 eyepies and a tin box for the speculum mirror.
• File:Facsimile of telescope by Galileo with main tube measuring 2-foot, 8 1/2-inches and magnification of 21 times. Made by Cipriani and purchased from the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale, Florence, Italy in 1923.
• File:Replica of Newton's first reflecting telescope made in 1668 and now in the possession of the Royal Society of London. Made for the Science Museum in 1924 by Mr F.L. Agate
• File:Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 5/8 inch aperture and 16 inch focal length by Thomas Wright, London, on an altazimuth stand with a folding claw foot tripod.
• File:Gregorian telescope with 3-inch speculum mirror, tube stopper and 2 eyepieces by Thomas Short, London in case.
• File:Brass Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 1/2 inch aperture by James Watson, London with altazimuth mount on claw foot stand. Accessories include 2 eyepieces and 2 secondary mirrors with metal tinplate box.
• File:Sextant, 15-inch with two removable viewing telescopes, by Jesse Ramsden, London, c 1775. Type of Hadley's sextant supplied by Ramsden for Captain Cook's second and third voyages, 1772 and 1776.
• File:Reflecting telescope, 20-inch aperture with speculum mirror and altazimuth mounting, by James Nasmyth at Patricroft, Manchester, England, 1850-1852. Fitted with one of two eyepieces. (see note)
• File:Pocket Terrestial Globe, 3" diameter, by John Bleuler, 1824, in fish-skin case, the inside of which constitutes a celestial globe, inscribed "BLUELER, 27, Ludgate Street, London, 1824".
• File:Circular framework of 8 foot diameter for large mural Circle, by Troughton & Simms, London, England, 1832
• File:Telescope for large mural Circle, by Troughton & Simms, England, 1832
• File:Set of reading micrometers for large mural Circle, by Troughton & Simms, England, 1832
• File:Brass Gregorian reflecting telescope of 3-inch aperture, by John Bird, London with altazimuth mount on claw foot stand, inscribed "J. BIRD"
• File:Small Zeiss Planetarium by Carl Zeiss, Jena, Nr.30, (Luftwaffe Training Model), complete with star sphere, control panel and stand.
• File:Mean Motion Orrery with drum case on claw foot stand showing seven planets out to Uranus by Robert Fidler, London. Designed by Rev. William Pearson in 1813 and described in Rees's Encyclopedia.
• File:Gregorian reflecting telescope of 2 inch aperture and 16 inch focal with a red shagreen covered brass tube by George Sterrop, London, on an altazimuth mounting with a folding claw foot tripod.
• File:Model (scale 1:200) of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope.
• File:Outer fixed chapter ring and rotating astronomical dial of two-thirds scale copy of Hampton Court astronomical clock (General Note : fixed chapter ring made in the Museum)
• File:Two strain gauges, mounted on bottle-screws, mounted on two cables holding cantilevered gallery balcony, 1960-1963
• File:Speculum mirror, 6 3/8-inch in diameter and 75-inch focal length made by Sir William Herschel (RAS No.122). Presented to the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884 by R.J.Ryle.
• File:Astronomia. Set of 52 cards in original slip case. Designed and published by F.G. Moon, London 1829; steel engravings by J & G Pickett.
• File:Handbill: Bartley, Theatre Royal.
• File:Brass Islamic planispheric astrolabe of Syrian origin with cursive & Kufic Arabic script, with one latitude plates unsigned without date, 901-1100 CE.
• File:Selection photographs 3 of 39 (Nos.3,12 & 23) of sunspots taken on the photoheliograph at Kew Observatory in 1870, Sept 21-24, 26-29. each paper, 125x110mm
• File:Dialytic telescope of 60 mm aperture and 750 mm focal length by S.G. Plössl, Wien on an altazimuth mounting with folding tripod.
• File:Engraved chart, on Epitome of Astronomy or a Compendious View of our Solar System by William Snow
• File:Model of Hipparcos astronomy satellite spacecraft, scale 1:6, made by ESA (European Space Agency), 1984-1985.
• File:Hand-painted lantern slides of astronomical subjects, c. 1820, oblong in wooden frames
• File:Hand-painted lantern slides of astronomical subjects, c. 1820, oblong in wooden frames
• File:Dall-Kirkham Cassegrain reflecting telescope of folding design, aperture 6 inches
• File:Clockdriven celestial globe by Qi Mei-lu of Wuyuan, China, 1830, with horizon ring, pillars and base. Marked with Chinese ascerisms.
• File:'The Astroglobe', glass celestial globe with liquid horizon and stand, by George Philip & Son, London, England, 1929-1939.
• File:Commemorative tea towel celebrating the solar eclipse visible from Cornwall on August 11th, 1999.
• File:Commemorative post card by Headland Printers Ltd., celebrating the solar eclipse visible from Cornwall on August 11th, 1999. View shows St. Michael's Mount and a Cornish pasty superimposed over the Sun.
• File:Electronic interface unit for communication between Prof. Hawking and his computer avoiding the use of a keyboard. Part of communication equipment built for Prof. Stephen Hawking to allow speech and communication by computer with the Internet (see note).
• File:Electronic possum switch with transformer to control Prof. Hawking computer interface. Part of communication equipment built for Prof. Stephen Hawking to allow speech and communication by computer with the Internet.
• File:Analogue mobile phone that gives Prof. Hawking access to the telephone via his voice synthesizer. Part of communication equipment built for Prof. Stephen Hawking to allow speech and communication by computer with the Internet. Made by Motorola (see note).
• File:Flammarion type Mars globe, 15 cm (5 3/4-inch) in diameter, on ebonised wooden stand, by Eugene Marie Antoniadi, published by Emile Bertaux, Paris, France, 1896-99
• File:Main part of gyroscope rotor and housing from Gravity Probe B experiment, without case
• File:'Honk if Pluto is still a planet' bumper sticker, USA, 2006. Designed by Chris Spurgeon in response to the International Astronomical Union General Assembly vote in Prague on 24 August 2006, in which Pluto was demoted to the status of 'dwarf planet'.
• File:Astronomy version of the board game Monopoly, manufactured by USAopoly, United States, 2001. Complete boxed set with all pieces and instructions.
• File:Two posts plus copper wire, one of two sets from the interplanetary scintillation array (also known as the 4-acre array) built at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, 1967.
• File:Spare mirror segment from the H.E.S.S. (High Energy Stereoscopic System ) Telescope, 2000-2003 (see note)
• File:Book: Sidereus nuncius by Galileo Galilei, published 1610
• File:Book: Epytoma Joãnis De mõte regio Jn almagestu ptolomei by Ptolemy (2nd cent.BCE), published 1496
• File:Book: The story of the solar system by George F, Chambers, published 1895
• File:Book: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 1st edition (1988)
• File:Book: Les terres du ciel, by Camille Flammarion, 1884
• File:Joint European X-Ray telescope (JET-X), never flown - built for Russian SPECTRUM mission which was cancelled after breakup of Soviet Union (see note)
• File:Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra or ‘plug’ plate, Used in astronomical sky survey to select sky areas of interest for spectroscopy. USA, c.2000
• File:Edition of the science journal, 'Nature' with the title, 'Dear ET' published 2 September 2004. The cover page shows the golden record disc carried by each of the NASA Voyager spacecraft
• File:Facsmile of Thomas Harriot's first moon map based on observation made with a telescope from Syon House
• File:Facsmile of Thomas Harriot's moon map (without markings), 1610-1613
• File:Facsmile of Thomas Harriot's first observations of the newly-discovered satellites of Jupiter, 17 October 1610, Syon House.
• File:Facsmile of Thomas Harriot's first observations of sunspots, 8 December 1610, Syon House.
• File:Photographic facsimiles of William Herschel's map of our Milkyway galaxy, lenticular with fork on one side. drafted 1784–85. Originals owned by Royal Astronomical Society. (see note)
• File:Photographic facsimiles of William Herschel's map of our Milkyway galaxy, forked bar surrouned by split ring. drafted 1784–85. Originals owned by Royal Astronomical Society. (see note)
• File:Facsimile of the graphical representation of the message sent in 1974 from the huge Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
• File:Mock-up representation of prototype pentagonal mirror segment made by Zeeko Limited for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT ), 2005-2008. Consists of 960 separate reflectors equal to a mirror, 42 metres in diameter.
• File:Model of pulsar made by Prof, Antony Hewish, following the discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell Burnell c. 1967. Manufactured at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.
• File:Main part of reflecting telescope, 9-inch aperture with cradle, stand, and base. Home-made by Phil Shepherdson, England. Constructed using recycled materials (catering food cans, coat hangar wire, and carborundum-ground glass mirror) 1967-69.
• File:Model of Moon machine used in the stop-motion short animation film, ‘A Grand Day Out’, directed by Nick Park, made by Aardman Animations Limited in 1989.
• File:Twin spare of the long-wavelength spectrometer from ISO (Infra-red Space Observatory). Assembled and tested at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, c.1993.
• File:Scale model (1:10) of Swift gamma ray space observatory. Manufactured for Leicester Space Research Centre in 2002. (see note field)
• File:Cylindrical section of grazing mirror as used in XMM-Newton x ray space telescope, mounted in Perspex. Manufactured under ESA contract for Leicester Space Research Centre by Carl Ziess and Media Lario, c.1995.
• File:Prototype sapphire test mass from GEO 600 gravitational wave detector, 2003. Manufactured by Crystal Systems, Massachusetts, USA and polished by Wave Precision, California, USA for Glasgow University.
• File:Spare camera lens and camera body from SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project for detecting extrasolar planets, 2008.
• File:Alien model from the cinema film,‘Mars Attacks!’, 1996-1998
• File:Scale model (1:10) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), 1994, modified 2002.
• File:Scale model (1:10) of the Herschel Space Observatory commissioned by the European Space Agency, 2008.
• File:A Princess of Mars – Edgar Rice Burroughs. Science-Fiction paperback novel
• File:The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury . Science-Fiction paperback novel.
• File:Childhood’s End – Arthur C Clarke. Science-Fiction paperback novel.
• File:The Black Cloud – Fred Hoyle. Science-Fiction paperback novel.
• File:February edition of 'Astounding Science Fiction' including 'A bicycle made for brew' by Poul Anderson. c. 1950s.
• File:August edition of 'Astounding Science Fiction', including 'Close to Critical' by Hal Clement, c. 1950s.
• File:Prototype suspension system for Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) gravitational wave detector with dummy metal test masses. Made by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, England, 2007-2008.
• File:Ivory buddhist horoscope, Tibetan, 18th or 19th century
• File:Disc-like brass divination plaque engraved with signs of zodiac and Islamic script, from Middle East, 1801-1920
• File:Framed embroidered illustration of an astrologer prognosticating the birth of a child to King Charles and his queen, English, 1620-1630