Jupiter
Date
1856
Creator
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819 - 1900, British) , Astronomer
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Description
View of the planet Jupiter as observed through a telescope from the peak of Mount Teide, Tenerife.
Inscribed in ink underneath: 'Alta Vista Station Jupiter
As seen in the Pattinson Equatorial with magnifying power 350 at 23. Sid Time on September 4th 1856-'
The 'Alta Vista Station' was the name of the camp erected at the peak of Mount Teide by Charles Piazzi Smyth and his party during their 1856 astronomical expedition to this volcanic mountain range.
From the 'Tenerife Papers of Charles Piazzi Smyth', a scrapbook of watercolours and stereographs documenting this expedition.
This particular watercolour features as the top half of plate XXXIII in Smyth's paper 'Astronomical experiment on the peak of teneriffe, carried out under the sanction of the lords commissioners of the admiralty', published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 148, 1858.
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) Italian Astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857, but resigned in 1874.
Inscribed in ink underneath: 'Alta Vista Station Jupiter
As seen in the Pattinson Equatorial with magnifying power 350 at 23. Sid Time on September 4th 1856-'
The 'Alta Vista Station' was the name of the camp erected at the peak of Mount Teide by Charles Piazzi Smyth and his party during their 1856 astronomical expedition to this volcanic mountain range.
From the 'Tenerife Papers of Charles Piazzi Smyth', a scrapbook of watercolours and stereographs documenting this expedition.
This particular watercolour features as the top half of plate XXXIII in Smyth's paper 'Astronomical experiment on the peak of teneriffe, carried out under the sanction of the lords commissioners of the admiralty', published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 148, 1858.
Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) Italian Astronomer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857, but resigned in 1874.
Object history
Donated to the Royal Society by Charles Piazzi Smyth, 1857.
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