The Herschel Museum in Bath, England, has a new display of a handwritten draft of Caroline Herschel’s memoirs. Internet Archive Book Images via Wikimedia Commons Caroline Herschel, the first English ...

The Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath is delighted to announce that Dr Brian May CBE, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society has agreed to become their new Patron, stepping in to the role left ...

A working replica of William Herschel's 7 foot telescope which he set up in the garden of 19 New King Street (now the Museum) and discovered the planet Uranus on 13th March 1781. The telescope was one ...

In the May 2015 issue of Astronomy, Ralph Wilkins wrote an excellent account of his visit to the Herschel Museum in Bath, England. This was the former home of astronomer William Herschel, who, at this ...

The 57 densely handwritten pages of a little booklet, on display one precious leaf at a time in the music room of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, cost the museum £108,000, making it by far ...

This small conversation piece was an interesting acquisition for the Herschel Museum as it shows a woman and two girls with a telescope and other astronomical instruments. The scene is highly unusual ...