by David J. Eicher
One of the earliest daguerrotype photos of the Moon, taken by John Adams Whipple and William Cranch Bond, ca. 1850, using the 15-inch Great Refractor at Harvard College Observatory. Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 19, 2013.
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