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Collection: Astronomy

Nikon F Camera

This is a Nikon F 35mm film camera. The camera’s body is roughly rectangular with a large round opening on the front where a lens…

Camera Tripod

This is a small tripod stand with tubular legs. Each of the feet has a pointed, conical end. The legs are held together by a…

Astro Compass Mark II

This object is kept in a wooden box, painted grey, with a woven fabric handle and white lettering on the top and front face. Inside…

Diffraction Grating

This object consists of a rectangular sheet of glass, in the centre of which there is a small rectangle of a slightly rougher glass; this…

Weight-Driven Clock Drive

This object is kept in a pale-coloured wooden box with a blue David Dunlap Observatory label on the top. The instrument inside is basically rectangular,…

Copper Photogravure Plates

There are 56 copper plates for photogravure (the creation of copper stamps for the reproduction of photographs). These are wrapped in tissue paper (previously in…

Stand

This object is a the base of a small tripod lab-stand. It consists of three feet from which a simple metal tube rises vertically. This…