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Description: university: Madingley Road: Northumberland Telescope building |
Date built: c1838 |
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Date photograph taken: 07 Apr 2000 | (Alternative map: Google map) |
An old telescope, but still used for some observations. This is most famous for being the telescope where Neptune was not discovered in 1846, because of an unfortunate series of events, in particular observationalists not believing the predictions of a theoretician.
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