[Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 8, 1918]
Creation: 1918-06-08
Barnard pioneered astrophotography as well as discovering 15 comets and the first non-Galilean moon of Jupiter. His astronomical photographs were published posthumously as A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (1927) completed by the director of Yerkes Observatory and Mary R. Calvert, Barnard's niece, who worked as his assistant.
Title
[Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 8, 1918]
Contributor
Date
Creation: 1918-06-08
Description
Barnard pioneered astrophotography as well as discovering 15 comets and the first non-Galilean moon of Jupiter. His astronomical photographs were published posthumously as A Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way (1927) completed by the director of Yerkes Observatory and Mary R. Calvert, Barnard's niece, who worked as his assistant.
Rights
Public Domain
Format
Lantern slides
Source
MSS0031, Edward Emerson Barnard Papers, Box 43, Folder 02
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Collection
Citation
“[Total Eclipse of the Sun, June 8, 1918],” Gallery, accessed June 2, 2023, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/794.