Jupiter Charles Piazzi Smyth
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Jupiter
View of the planet Jupiter as observed through a telescope from the peak of Mount Teide, Tenerife.
Inscribed in ink underneath: 'Alta Vista Station Jupiter As seen in the Pattinson Equatorial with magnifying power 350 at 23. Sid Time on September 4th 1856-'
The 'Alta Vista Station' was the name of the camp erected at the peak of Mount Teide by Charles Piazzi Smyth and his party during their 1856 astronomical expedition to this volcanic mountain range.
From the 'Tenerife Papers of Charles Piazzi Smyth', a scrapbook of watercolours and stereographs documenting this expedition.
- Image reference: RS-17526
- ©The Royal Society
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