XXXIII. Account of some observations tending to investigate the construction of the heavens.

Abstract

In a former paper I mentioned, that a more powerful instrument was preparing for continuing my reviews of the heavens. The telescope I have lately completed, though far inferior in size to the one I had undertaken to construct when that paper was written, is of the Newtonian form, the object speculum being of 20 feet focal length, and its aperture 18 7/10 inches.