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Telescope at Birr Castle

Learn about Lord Rosse's Birr Leviathan telescope and its various important discoveries, the most important being the detailed observations of many nebulae at Birr Castle, Ireland

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Birr Castle telescope

telescope, Birr, Ireland

Also known as: “Leviathan”, Great Telescope

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Rosse

In William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse
…largest reflecting telescope, the “Leviathan,” of the 19th century.
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