Zeiss has an incredible reputation as a telescope manufacturer, and a preferred instrument for those amateur astronomers with means used to be a 130-mm refractor. On pages 683–700 in this issue of JAHH there is a paper by Ramesh Kapoor about a 130-mm Zeiss telescope with an unusual background. Constructed in the late 1920s, it was a gift from Adolf Hitler to the King of Nepal in 1938, and is now on display in the museum of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, India. The cover on this issue of JAHH shows the telescope, the King, and close-ups of the achromatic objective and the famous Carl Zeiss insignia.

Zeiss has an incredible reputation as a telescope manufacturer, and a preferred instrument for those amateur astronomers with means used to be a 130-mm refractor. On pages 683–700 in this issue of JAHH there is a paper by Ramesh Kapoor about a 130-mm Zeiss telescope with an unusual background. Constructed in the late 1920s, it was a gift from Adolf Hitler to the King of Nepal in 1938, and is now on display in the museum of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, India. The cover on this issue of JAHH shows the telescope, the King, and close-ups of the achromatic objective and the famous Carl Zeiss insignia.