Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White then later replaced during post-processing

then later replaced during post-processing with the more naturally coloured stars from the RGB (red

In the end I managed to record the entire eclipse and I later selected nine images to process

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This pocket watch is one of our timepieces from Royal Observatory Greenwich

Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman (Previously Identified as Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1732-1811) Frame:White then later replaced during post-processingAlthough acquired as a portrait of Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal at Greenwich (1765 1811), the late Derek Howse, former Head of Astronomy at NMM and Maskelyne's biographer, firmly believed that this portrait is misidentified on the basis of its great dissimilarity to Louis van der Puyl's undoubted Maskelyne portrait of 1785 owned by the Royal Society. Van der Puyl shows him in clerical dress (black with bands) appropriate to his formal