Lunar Photograph, South Pole
Paul Henry French
Prosper Henry French
Not on view
In 1885 the Henry brothers, astronomers at the Paris Observatory, built a refractor telescope with a sophisticated clock drive designed specifically for photography. They used the instrument to photograph the surface of the moon, as seen here, along with many other astronomical objects, including planets, asteroids, nebulae, and star fields.
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