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The Moon (10 Days Old)
George W. Ritchey American
Not on view
In 1885 the Henry brothers, astronomers at the Paris Observatory, built a refractor telescope with a sophisticated clock drive and an eleven-foot-long lens 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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