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Basic Info

Maker: Mann & Ayscough

Year:

Year Range: 1743-1747

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Manufacturing Location: England

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Inscriptions:

No stand present.

Collection: Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum

Accession #: W-283

Sources:

Project investigation and collection website.

Public Notes:

Objective cell screw into slider cap, and cap into draw.
Similar to M-455 but 3 rather than 5 lenses.
Small objective.
Shaved rayskin pattern (shagreen), with rouge filling spaces between cells. Objective has slider, brass cell.
Draws have wooden aperture stops at objective end, milled brass ferrules at ocular end.
Covered in green vellum.
Inked, dotted extension marks.
3 draws.
Ocular unit with 3 lens erector.

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Optical Basics

Objective type: singlet

Optical style

Physical style spyglass

Functional style

Materials: vellum, shagreen, pasteboard, wood, glass, brass

Optical/Lab Data

Drawtube data:

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Objective Data

CA curvature (diopters): CB curvature (diopters): PD lens power (diopters): fD focal length (mm): t thickness (mm): free aperture (mm): full aperture (mm): nD refractive index: ν Abbe No.:
Lens 1 2.40 ± 0.002 417.60 ± 0.4
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Eyepieces

Notes:

Eyepiece 1
fD focal length (mm): free aperture (mm): full aperture (mm): s spacing (mm): CA curvature (diopters): CB curvature (diopters): M magnification: FOV field of view (degrees): Thickness:
Lens 1 37.40
Lens 2 37.70
Lens 3 37.90
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