Donato Creti - “Astronomical Observations: The Sun”

(Source: windypoplarsroom)

Donato Creti - “Astronomical Observations: Mars”

(Source: windypoplarsroom)

nends:

 

the bare necessities  - http://www.photo.rmn.fr/

astronomy kit

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yama-bato:

View of the Moon
John Adams Whipple
February 26, 1852 
quarter plate
Harvard College Observatory
(OB-7)

In the late 1840s John Adams Whipple undertook a series of experiments with William Cranch Bond, Director of the Harvard College Observatory. By 1851, using the Observatory’s 15-inch refracting telescope, one of the two largest in the world at the time, the photographer and astronomer had succeeded in creating a clear, detailed rendering of the moon. That same year the exemplary daguerreotype was awarded a gold medal at the Crystal Palace Exhibition, and the French Academy of Sciences proclaimed the image “the finest production ever brought before them.”

http://preserve.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes/highlight11.html

John Adams Whipple & George P. Bond Harvard Observatory, 1852.

http://xnem.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html

Partial solar eclipse, by Whipple, 1851

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams_Whipple