V.14 Veil Nebula in Cygnus Product:Postcard Note how the passengers are

Note how the passengers are given no protection from bad weather and road dust

A rear view of the cast iron grinding tool used to produce the speculum (mirror) of the reflecting telescope at Birr Castle

People enjoying the hot weather at the Oasis outdoor swimming pool Lido

'The Walking Stationer'

mirrored inscription provides the date of 'September 16 1757'

V.14 Veil Nebula in Cygnus Product:Postcard Note how the passengers arePlate 11 figure 34 for the paper 'Observations of nebulae and clusters of stars, made at Slough, with a twenty feet reflector, between the years 1825 and 1833', by Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, v. 123 (1833), pp. 359 505. The object is illustrated with a scale of 0 30 minutes at the lower edge, not on the published plate. Inscribed verso, in pencil, 'An innumerable multitude of stars cover the