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The Sheepshanks Equatorial Telescope was a 6.7-inch (170 mm) aperture refracting telescope installed in 1838 at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The telescope was donated to the observatory by the astronomer Richard Sheepshanks. The telescope had a doublet objective lens made by Cauchoix of Paris. Originally it was mounted on a clockwork driven equatorial mounting by the Grubb Telescope Company on a stone pillar.

Observations
One of its observations was of Comet Encke. Some of the stars that were observed include Bradley 687, 130 Tauri, and 26 Geminorum- among others. == Disambiguation ==
Disambiguation
There are other telescopes bearing the name Sheepshanks, for example the Sheepshanks telescope No 3; this was a telescope of 4.6 inches aperture and 5 feet of focal length, used with a spectroscope in the 1860s. There was also a Sheepshanks telescope at Cambridge, completed in 1898. ==See also==
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