Visit to Herschel museum Bath

[JeremyS]

Popped into the museum whilst in Bath at the weekend. A few years since last visited, but still excellent.

Pretty hot in there. One of the coolest rooms had an a/c unit but was still 27C.

Added benefit was seeing people in period dress for the Jane Austen festival 

[badhex]

Ooh don't they have a model of the 40-foot telescope there? Very topical for me as I'm also trying to track down Enceladus, albeit with a much smaller scope 😂

[Gfamily]

1 hour ago, badhex said:

Ooh don't they have a model of the 40-foot telescope there? Very topical for me as I'm also trying to track down Enceladus, albeit with a much smaller scope 😂

I don't think they have his 40ft scope, though they have one of his smaller (6" I think) scopes on display 

[badhex]

36 minutes ago, Gfamily said:

I don't think they have his 40ft scope, though they have one of his smaller (6" I think) scopes on display 

Ah, I thought there might be a small scale model there. I understand the first of the two speculum primarys is in the London science museum, and the remaining 10 feet of tube is in the Greenwich observatory.