Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18741

    Plaskett telescope

    Date
    1920
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Image reference
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 88mm
    width (print): 68mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    View of the interior of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The main feature is the 72-inch aperture reflecting telescope named in honour of the astronomer John Stanley Plaskett, first Director of the facility.

    The image is from an album of original photographs, with postcards and other pictures collected during the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1924. The album shows participants in activities of Section K: Botany. An inscription on the print states: ‘INTERIOR OF OBSERVATORY VICTORIA’.

    An account of the British Association gathering, by R D’O. Good and A. B. Rendle, appeared in the Journal of Botany v.63 (1925), pp.1-9.

    John Stanley Plaskett (1865-1941) Canadian astronomer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1923.
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