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,
All these astrophotographs were taken with a 20" reflector. Unless otherwise noted the scale of the images is 1mm equals 24 arcseconds.
The second group of astrophotographs were published in
Isaac Roberts, Photographs of Star-Clusters and Nebulae, 1899 Knowledge Office, Vol. 2.
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M1 1mm=8 arcseconds 60 min exposure taken on 1/25/1895 |
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Veil Nebula 1mm=30arcseconds 2 hours 55 min exposure taken on 11/4/1896 |
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M51 1mm =12 arcseconds 90min exposure taken on 4/15/1898 |