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The First Photograph of the Moon 🌕
In 1840, John William Draper captured what the Smithsonian identifies as the first photograph of the Moon. Using the daguerreotype process, Draper pioneered astronomical photography at a time when photographing celestial objects was an extraordinary technical challenge. Nearly 186 years later, our view of the Moon is dramatically different ...
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