William Hautenville Rambaut
Rambaut was Lord Rosse's first assistent of at Birr Castle,
working from Jan.
to June1848. He made some nice chalk drawings (on black cardboard) of nebulae
observed with the 72" reflector, which were not published. Up left to bottom:
M 51, M 64, M 97, M 99, M 42 [(c) W. Steinicke]. On 1 April 1848 Rambaut
discovered the galaxy NGC 4110 in Coma Berenices with the 72-inch.
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Parsons W. |
On the Construction of Specula of Six-feet
Aperture; and a selection from the Observations of nebulae made with
them |
Phil. Trans. 151, 681-745 (1861) |
Birr Castle
