The first known photograph of a comet. Donati’s Comet, taken at Harvard College Observatory in 1858.
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John Adams Whipple :: Earliest known survived photograph of the moon, a daguerreotype taken in 1851
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Model of the Moon at Field Columbian Museum,
Chicago, ca. 1894
Fig. 63.—To find the long and short months.
Illustration from Astronomy for Amateurs by Camille Flammarion, October 1904 / unknown illustrator / via nemfrog
Simonds :: Solar Eclipse, 1975 via punlovsin
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