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Technology

 

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Spectroscopes

Airy’s Prismatic Spectrum-Apparatus (1862)

Spectroscope by Browning (1874)

Christie’s direct-vision ‘half-prism’ spectroscope (1877)

Maclean star-spectroscope (1891/2)

Thompson photographic spectroscope (1897/8)

2 Yapp spectroscopes (1930s)

New Yapp spectroscope (1960s)

 

Spectrohelioscopes & spectrographs

The Greenwich spectrohelioscope (borrowed from the Mount Wilson Observatory, 1929)

The Newbegin spectrohelioscope (donated to the Observatory in 1946)

3½- prism Littrow spectrograph