Mars Globe Mars Globe, one of five hand-painted globes made by the Danish artist Ingeborg Bruhn circa 1916. It depicts the albedo features of Mars, south up, as seen through a telescope, based on the drawings of Percival Lowell. The globe, 20 cm in diameter, has an...
Star Globe Star globe, made in Poland by the Czech company J. Felkl & Sons (Roztok and Prague), circa 1890. They produced globes in 17 languages; the constellation names on this globe are in Dutch. Area 2 Group 1 • Group 2 • Group 3 • Group 4 • Group 5 • Group...
Magnetometer Mascart Magnetometer, one of a set given to the Specola in 1891 by Fr. Lais; made of brass in the shops of Carpentier, Paris, with a silver inlaid Vernier scale. These instruments were used for the continuous recording of variations in the Earth’s...
Merz Telescope This telescope was the first telescope of the newly founded Specola Vaticana in 1891. It has an aperture of 10.2 cm and a focal length of 1.5 m, and was manufactured by G. Merz & Sons of Munich around 1865. It originally belonged to the Marquis...
Fr. Alois Gatterer, S.J. Fr. Alois Gatterer S.J. (1886-1953) served at the Vatican Observatory from 1933 until his death in 1953. He set up and organized the astrophysical laboratory at Castel Gandolfo, and undertook the production of the spectral atlases for which...
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