Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.9231
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M.97 the Owl Nebula
Date
1833
Creator
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871, British) , Astronomer
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height (drawing): 88mm
width (drawing): 95mm
width (drawing): 95mm
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Description
Plate 10 figure 32 for the paper "Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty-feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833", by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v.123 (1833), pp.359-505. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "Mess[ier] 97 ?". The printed version has no query attached. With right ascension, North polar distance, sweep number and diameter of 2.5 minutes.
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