The Great Melbourne Telescope M day This exclusive rare print sourced

This exclusive rare print sourced from Museums Victoria's own collection features bookplate 3 from Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe

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The Great Melbourne Telescope M day This exclusive rare print sourcedThe Great Melbourne Telescope is one of the great hidden stories of 19th century Australia. Designed by leading British astronomers and erected at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was the second largest telescope in the world. It was designed to explore the nature of the nebulae in the southern skies. Were the nebulae really clouds of gas; the birthplace of stars, or were they distant clusters of stars? Only a large telescope could help