40-foot telescope
REFLECTING TELESCOPE CONSTRUCTED BETWEEN 1785 AND 1789 AT OBSERVATORY HOUSE IN SLOUGH, ENGLAND
Great Forty-Foot telescope; Great Forty-Foot; 40 foot telescope; William Herschel's Telescope; 40-ft telescope
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a diameter primary mirror with a focal length (hence its name "Forty-Foot").