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64 photos and 36 illustrations tagged telescope, from 15 members of Flickr Commons.

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• National Library of Medicine 15 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 10 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 9 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 8 photos & illustrations
• NASA on The Commons 5 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
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• SDASM Archives 1 photo / illustration
• Bergen Public Library Norway 1 photo / illustration
• The Field Museum Library 1 photo / illustration

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Night sky viewing for members of the Astronomical Society of Queensland

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  Before the events that would spawn the original AAQ in 1969, the Astronomical Society of Queensland (ASQ) was the only major Queensland astronomical body in Queensland, having existed since 1927. Following the advent of the space age in late 1957, the membership of the ASQ had been growing quite rapidly with a burgeoning public interest in all things space-related. Included on the periphery of these new members were the dreamy and disconnected ‘flying saucer set’ who was the subject of some quiet amusement for some of the younger members such as my friend Peter Smith and myself. The political affiliations of these new members must have raised some concerns because several years later the long-time Secretary Bill Newell told me confidentially that one of our new members was an ASIO agent checking us out! He built a fine 6-inch telescope at night classes (which can be seen in the 1961 TV photo with Bill Newell), but dropped out after a few years. Source: www.aaq.org.au/asq-18-telescope-project-and-the-bundaberg...

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  What more could you ask for? Mysteries of the Universe

Irvinebank Observatory ca. 1910

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  historicalaustraliantowns.blogspot.com/2019/11/irvinebank... " Dr. William Evan McFarlane built an observatory with a rotating dome, at his house at Ivirnbank, installing a 7-inch refracting telescope".

Out standing in his own field?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 11 older comments, and then…
• Sharon Corbet said:

  William Parsons, third Earl of Rosse, John's Place, Birr, County Offaly and yes to answer your questions.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Streetview The NIAH entry dates it to c. 1870 (he died in 1867) and the photo is pre-engraving of his name on the plinth, so it must be shortly after it was erected.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  A slightly different view of the statue in the Lawrence Collection, but also lacking engraving so probably taken at a similar time frame.

• Foxglove said:

  within NLofI Flickr I think you have a photo listed with the "great telescope",

• Niall McAuley said:

  The DIA says it is by John Henry Foley, who also started the O'Connell monument in O'Connell St, did Fr. Matthew in Cork, Goldsmith and Burke in Trinity, Prince Albert on Leinster Lawn, Carlisle and Gough in the Phoenix Park, a Guinness at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Grattan on College Green. I think we have seen all of those in the nli Flickr stream!