Telescope Of T. W. Webb
by Royal Astronomical Society/science Photo Library
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Telescope Of T. W. Webb
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Royal Astronomical Society/science Photo Library
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Telescope of T. W. Webb. Reverend Thomas William Webb (1807-1885) was a British astronomer. He built a small wood observatory on the grounds of his vicarage and acquired a number of refractor and reflector telescopes. He used these to obtain observations and write the famous amateur astronomy guide Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes (1859).
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September 23rd, 2018
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