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.

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Category:: Astronomy

Object Number:: 1929-758

Materials:: glass

type:: black-and-white transparencies, astrophotographs, planets and mars

credit:: Science Museum (Great Britain)

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Glass positive of Mars

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