Photograph Notes: This telescope (named after its donor, the Duke of Northumberland) was given to the Observatory in 1838, some 15 years after the Observatory was founded. With a 12-inch lens, it was for some years one of the world's largest refracting telescopes and is of great historical interest. It is now used by the student members of the University Astronomical Society (indeed I used it myself frequently when an undergraduate in the early 1960s!) and also for public observing nights. The original building boasted a wooden 'dome' of rather unusual shape (certainly not hemispherical, and quite difficult to describe): when this became too dilapidated to repair it was replaced by the current steel dome in 1932.

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