Glass positive of Mars

Made:
1926-10-16 in Mount Hamilton
photographer:
William Hammond Wright
maker:
Science Museum

Photographic transparencies (glass positive) of Mars, (photographs in light of different colours). Taken by W.H. Wright, Lick Observatory, 1926, October 16, with a 36-inch reflector, focal length, 210in. Photographs in ultra-violet, green, yellow red, infra-red, and violet light respectively.

Details

Category:
Astronomy
Object Number:
1929-758
Materials:
glass
type:
black-and-white transparencies, astrophotographs, planets and mars
credit:
Science Museum (Great Britain)