2023-04-19 16:00:00
Science Astronomy United States
The Langenheim brothers made a sequence of eight photographs of the solar eclipse of May 26, 1854, which are currently kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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On May 26, 1854, an annular solar eclipse occurred (when a ring of fire dominates the sky) that was photographed by the Langenheim brothers (William and Frederick, both born in Germany), who years earlier had opened a daguerreotype studio in Philadelphia, in the United States. The Langenheim brothers made a sequence of eight photographs, which These are some of the first photographs of a solar eclipse (The first daguerreotype dates from 1851 and was taken by Berkowski in Königsberg, today Kaliningrad, in Russia). Seven daguerreotypes of the eight made by the Langenheim brothers They have been preserved to this day in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.. The eclipse reached New York State at 4:15 p.m. and lasted 2 hours and 22 minutes.
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