Telescopes and Optical Instruments
Fraunhofer produced various optical instruments including microscopes for his firm. This included the Fraunhofer Dorpat Refractor used by Struve (delivered 1824), and the Bessel Heliometer (delivered posthumously), which were both used to collect data for stellar parallax. The firm's successor, Merz und Mahler, made a telescope for the New Berlin Observatory, which confirmed the existence of the major planet Neptune. Possibly the last telescope objective made by Fraunhofer was supplied for a transit telescope at the City Observatory, Edinburgh, the telescope itself being completed by Repsold of Hamburg after Fraunhofer's death.
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