For most of the 19th century, the biggest telescope in the world was in Birr, Ireland, then known as Parsonstown ... monster instrument was dubbed "The Leviathan". But even thus equipped, in ...

members and guests were privileged to hear a presentation by Dwight Lanpher about the Leviathan of Parsonstown. He reported on his trip, with slides, to Birr Castle, County Offaly, in Ireland ...

Less cleverly, he also pointed his telescope at the sun, which may have triggered his later blindness. Ireland’s "Leviathan of Parsonstown" a 40-ton reflecting telescope built by the Earl of Rosse in ...

(via SciShow Space) In the 1800s, William Parsons built a telescope larger than any in the world: The Leviathan of Parsonstown. This landmark in science history helped solve the mystery of just what a ...

The castle is well known as the home of the “Great Telescope,” or “Leviathan of Parsonstown,” which was built in 1845 by the third Earl of Rosse. It remained the largest telescope in the ...

Chief Guide John Joyce looks on as Quentin Cooper winds the handle to convey engineer Michael Tubridy to the observing position of the Leviathan of Parsonstown. For this special edition of The ...

When Irish astronomer William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, turned his 72-inch telescope (nicknamed the Leviathan of Parsonstown) on M51 in 1845, he became the first person to notice the galaxy’s ...

His parade was part of the inauguration of the Leviathan of Parsonstown, the six-foot mirror that, together with the barrel, made up the world's biggest telescope. Two masonry walls, each 50 feet ...

In April, while scanning the constellation Leo with Parsons’ 72-inch speculum-mirror reflector — the Leviathan of Parsonstown — Copeland was the first to spot this compact galaxy group.

Since the time of the Leviathan of Parsonstown, once the largest telescope in the world and the first from which spiral galaxies were observed, Offaly has been at the forefront of creativity.