THE EARL OF ROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 6, 12 July 1845, Page 4

THE EARL OF ROSSE'S LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.

Tothe Editor of the Evening Mail, Sin, — With pure delight do I communicate to you, a»'l by your permission, through your journal, to the civilized world, the fact, that the leviathan telescope, oi> which the Earl of R)sse ha 3 been toiling in his di'mcn*e at Parsonstown, now upwards of two \e<irs, although not absolutely finished, was in September last, directed lor the first time to the sideieal i heavers. The letter which I have received from its noble maker, m his usual unassuming style, merely a ates, that ihe metal, only just polished, was a preity good figure, and that with a power of 500, the neubU k-umu as Nit. 2, of Messier' s catalogue was even mop 1 m i^nificeut than the neubU No. 13 of Messier, when seen with his Lordship's telescope of two leei diameter, and '27 teet iocus. Cloudy weather prevtuted him turning the levuuhau on auy other nebulo.is otyect Thus then, we have, thank God, all danger of the rat't>l breaking, before itcould be polished, overcome. Little inoie, however, will be done to it, or with it, for some week c , inasmuch as- the noble Earl is on the eve of quitting Ireland for Eugland to resign at i'ork his post as President of the Bmish Asaociaiiou, and to visit Ins noble relatives at Kilnwick and at Brighton. This done, he returns to Ireland; aud I look forward with intense anxiety to witness its first sevirf tiial, when all its various appointments shall he completed, in the confidence that those who may thfii be piesent will see with it wiiat man has never teen before. The diameter oi the lar«e meul is six. ieet. and its focus 54 feet. Yet the immense mas-, is manageable by one man. J. SOUTH. Observatory, Kensington, Sept. 16.