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

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

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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