Isaac Roberts astrophotos

This first group of photos were published in

Isaac Roberts, A Selection of Photographs of Stars, Star-Clusters and Nebulae, 1890, The University Press, London . Vol. 1

All these astrophotographs were taken with a 20" reflector.  Unless otherwise noted the scale of the images is 1mm equals 24 arcseconds.

M34

1 hour exposure taken on 12/26/1892

M35

66min exposure taken on 2/7/1893

M44

90 min exposure taken on 2/13/1891

M103

60 min exposure taken on 12/23/1892

Cygnus star field

1mm =31.7 arcseconds

Right Ascension 19h 41m 14s to 19h 50m 26s

Declination 34d 28’ to 36d 38’

1 hour exposure taken on 8/14/1887

Double cluster in Perseus

3 hours exposure taken on 1/13/1890

M42- the Great Nebula in Orion

81 minute exposure taken on 12/24/1888

M42- the Great Nebula in Orion

205 minute exposure taken on 2/4/1889

M45--the Pleiades

4 hour exposure taken on 12/8/1888

Veil nebula

4 hour exposure taken on 9/28/1891

The second group of astrophotographs were published in

Isaac Roberts, Photographs of Star-Clusters and Nebulae, 1899 Knowledge Office, Vol. 2.

M1

1mm=8 arcseconds

60 min exposure taken on 1/25/1895

Veil Nebula

1mm=30arcseconds

2 hours 55 min exposure taken on 11/4/1896

M51

1mm =12 arcseconds

90min exposure taken on 4/15/1898

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