LtE in CMO #282
From William Patrick SHEEHAN
® . . . . . . . . . Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 07:14:29 -0600
Subject:
painting identification
Dear
Masatsugu,
Mars is finally a bit out of the way and
things are more restful, astronomically.
I will be posting all my Mars drawings with the Lick refractor on a web
page next few days and will inform you of their whereabouts. Meanwhile, Rem
Stone, one of the astronomers at Lick, showed me this exquisite painting, of
which he got a copy when he lived in
Warm regards,
. .
. About
a painting about a telescope and women:
It is well known here and it was once used as
a design of post-stamp (in
1990?, and so we used
it once to send the CMO; attached here an
image). It was painted in 1936 by a painter called Cho-u Oota (1896
-1958). It is owned by the
206 cm). As you see the telescope is realistic. It was
drawn based on
a real sketch of the famous 20 cm refractor of
the National Science
Museum at Ueno in
made by Nikon (Nippon Kogaku)
and is still working (once overhaulled).
Sadao MURAYAMA (1924 - ), now retired, worked for a
long time for the
Museum and it was by the 20 cm refractor that
the young pair of
MURAYAMA and EBISAWA detected the 1956 great
dust disturbance on 20
August 1956 and took the Tri-X pictures of the
dust storm. (Mn)
Bill SHEEHAN (