Earliest Eclipse Photo

[Tin Can]

and how

[Vaughn]

Saw a pretty cool printed-out image of a fully eclipsed sun taken by the Lick Observatory (but not at the Lick Observatory). The sun was about 8 to 10 inches in diameter on the negative. Printed by Linda Conner.

My best guess for a date of the image would be January 1, 1889.

[Tin Can]

Thank you

[Bernard_L]

1839. Arago and Daguerre partial eclipse
http://350ans.obspm.fr/fr/evenement-...e-astronomique
The daguerrotype has faded and survives only as an engraving

1854 first photos of a total eclipse; at least that is what this web page claims
https://www.laboiteverte.fr/premiere...e-totale-1854/

[Tin Can]

1839. Arago and Daguerre partial eclipse
http://350ans.obspm.fr/fr/evenement-...e-astronomique
The daguerrotype has faded and survives only as an engraving

1854 first photos of a total eclipse; at least that is what this web page claims
https://www.laboiteverte.fr/premiere...e-totale-1854/

Thank you

I NOW remember reading that fact

I forgot

[Ron in Arcata California]

Here's my "earliest" photo. Shot with wet plate collodion using 47.5 artar in 2017.

[Tin Can]

WOW!

Winner!

I may shoot my 3000mm NIKON or not

Here's my "earliest" photo. Shot with wet plate collodion using 47.5 artar in 2017.

[domaz]

Extraordinary that they could even predict a solar eclipse in 1854, we don't give the technology of the time as much credit as it deserves.

[Tin Can]

"Records from ancient China show that by about 20 BC Chinese astrologers understood the true cause of eclipses, and by 8 BC some predictions of total solar eclipse were made using the 135-month recurrence period. By CE 206, Chinese astronomers were able to predict solar eclipses by analysing the motion of the Moon."

Extraordinary that they could even predict a solar eclipse in 1854, we don't give the technology of the time as much credit as it deserves.