Photograph of a 3/4 Moon
notes: label: Description
content: Photograph of a ¾ moon glued to a glass plate, with a handwritten paper label reading "Aug 15 1880 Exp 1½ s 11 inch." This was taken by Henry Draper (1837-1882), an American physician who did important early work in astrophotography, much of it in the observatory he established on his father’s estate at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The 11-inch telescope used for this this image was an achromatic refractor with a photographic corrector made by Alvan Clark & Sons.
label: Description
content: Ref: George Frederick Barker, <i>Biographical Memoir of Henry Draper</i> (1888).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0014.02
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0014.02
label: accession number
content: 1999.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph of a 3/4 moon
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 5 1/8 in x 6 3/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 13.0175 cm x 16.1925 cm x 11.7475 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall glass plate: 6.9 cm x 7.9 cm; 2 23/32 in x 3 1/8 in