M51 Spiral Galaxy
Drawing by Lord Rosse using the 72 inch Birr Reflector in 1845
Taken from John F.W. Herschel (1858: "Outlines
of Astronomy", Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts; London 1858).
The Orion Nebula, showing the Trapezium,
(possibly made with Lord Rosse's Reflector)
by W. H. Rambaut.
White on Black - Damaged.
Three Pen and Ink sketches of Lunar Craters,
by Evelyn M. Whitehead, 1911.
.1 Sinus, Pr La Place Iridum
.2 Fracastorius
.3 Proclus
From a very old Comet Book, in Latin:
Image from Stanislav Lubienietzki S (1667) "Theatrum Cometicum" Vol.
II, in "Historia Cometarum" (1666), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jochen
Schramm (his site) has noted that this is an image of the
bright 1665 comet seen over the Alster lake in the centre of Hamburg
during April(?) 1665.
On its path through the heavens, this comet is about to be swallowed by a serpent!
