M.27 the Dumbbell Galaxy Product:Postcard October 1997

October 1997

The Red House

there was much indignation at the way the Government proposed to receive this friend of Britain

Johnny Aston

He was attempting a record run at Utah when he crashed very heavily

M.27 the Dumbbell Galaxy Product:Postcard October 1997Plate 10 figure 26 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. Inscribed verso, in pencil, "Nebula in Vulpecula" and "Messier 27" with right ascension and North polar distance. Original: pencil on board. 1833