File:Berkowski-Eclipse Königsberg 1851.jpg

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English: Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski made the first total solar eclipse photograph on July 28, 1851, also using the daguerreotype process, at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, a local daguerreotypist, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.
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Source http://www.museum-digital.de/thue/index.php?t=objekt&oges=566
Author Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski

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