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THE important part that photography is likely to play in the future of astronomy renders it desirable that an opportunity should be afforded to astronomers to acquaint themselves with the improvements continually made in this branch of their science. This could best be done by the establishment at convenient places of collections designed to exhibit the progress of photography as applied to astronomical observations. The Harvard College Observatory has some special advantages for forming such a collection, since it already possesses many of the early and historically important specimens which would naturally form part of the series, Among these may be mentioned four series of daguerreo types and photographs of various celestial objects taken at this Observatory. These series were respectively undertaken in 1850, 1857, 1869, and 1882.
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PICKERING, E. ASTRONOMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY . Nature 27, 556–557 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027556c0
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