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Royal Prussian Observatory's Expedition to Observe and Photograph the Total Solar Eclipse of 28 July, 1851

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Julius Berkowski, a renowned photographer, is credited for capturing the first successful photographic image of the solar corona (with the correct exposure) during this solar eclipse using a technique called "the daguerreotype process". He was requested to do so by Dr Busch, the then Director of the Royal Prussian Observatory, who had also made observations of the eclipse.

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