CNC-Telescope With Semi-Nasmyth Mount. 9 Comments . by: Steven Dufresne. January 13, 2017. Title: Copy. Short Link: Copy [GregO29] had a 10″ GoTo telescope but at 70lbs, it wasn’t really portable.

Nasmyth was an amateur astronomer who built his own 20-inch reflecting telescope and made detailed observations of the moon. He was also an amateur photographer and experimented with various ways of ...

James Nasmyth used his 20-inch Cassegrain-Newton telescope for many of his personal illustrations and to create his plaster models. Credit: wikimedia commons Carpenter was a British astronomer at ...

The Moon Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite. By James Nasmyth James Carpenter. With 24 illustrative plates of lunar objects, phenomena, and scenery, and numerous woodcuts.

WHEN James Nasmyth (1808–1890) was twenty-six years of age he set up in business as an engineer in Manchester, and two years later, at Patricroft on the Bridgewater Canal, he established the ...