Total Solar Eclipse #1
by Us Naval Observatory/science Photo Library
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Total Solar Eclipse #1
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Us Naval Observatory/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Total solar eclipse, 7 August 1869, stereoscopic card. These are paired stereoscopic images which provide a 3D image (stereogram) when viewed side-by-side. Total solar eclipses (when the Sun is completed obscured by the Moon) usually occur less than once a year, last only a few minutes and can only be seen from a small area of the Earth's surface. For a view of totality during this eclipse, see image C034/5580. This image was prepared from negatives made by the Philadelphia Photographic Eclipse Expedition, managed by US scientist Henry Jackson Morton (1836-1902), under the direction of US Navy professor John Huntington Crane Coffin (1815-1890) of the Nautical Almanac Office (United States Naval Observatory), Washington DC, USA.
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October 3rd, 2018
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