Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11062

    Ring Nebula in Lyra

    Date
    1891
    Creator
    Martelli (Italian) , Protozoologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    34096
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 289mm
    width (print): 204mm
    Subject
    Astronomy
       > Nebulae
    Content object
    Description
    Astronomical view of the planetary nebula M.57, the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra.

    Plate 6 from Pubblicazioni della Specola Vaticana, vol.1-2 (Rome, Tipografia Vaticana, 1891). This image is described in more detail at pp.105-106 of its accompanying article: “Descrizione della specola per la fotografia celeste…’, by Giuseppe Lais and Federico Mannucci.

    Inscribed above: ‘NEBULOSA DELLA LIRA…Tav. VI’. Inscribed below: ‘Scala di 78 millimetri per minute di arco. Stab. Martelli Roma.’

    The Vatican Observatory (Specola Vaticana) was re-founded in 1891. Fr. Giuseppe Lais (1845-1921) studied under Pietro Angelo Secchi FRS (1818-1878).
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