#berkowski

[ri-science]

This is the first photograph of a total solar eclipse, taken #OnThisDay in 1851 by Berkowski.

28 July 1851 at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

[dame-de-pique]

The first correctly exposed photograph of the solar corona was made during the total phase of the solar eclipse of 28 July 1851 by a local daguerreotypist named Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6 cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8 cm Fraunhofer heliometer and an 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality [wiki]

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[metacongarisaycascabel]

28 de julio de 1851 - first solar eclipse

[yazhi-blog]

Berkowski was the first to photograph a solar eclipse. He captured the solar eclipse of July 28, 1851 at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Using a small 6-cm refracting telescope attached to a 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer, a 84-second exposure was taken shortly as the last baily's bead peeked. 

His first name was never published. Stay humble, Berkowski. 

[historyofscience]

The first correctly-exposed photograph of the solar corona was made during the total phase of the solar eclipse of 28 July 1851 by a local daguerreotypist named Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kalinigrad in Russia). Berkowski, whose first name was never published, observed at the Royal Observatory. A small 6-cm refracting telescope was attached to the 15.8-cm Fraunhofer heliometer and a 84-second exposure was taken shortly after the beginning of totality.