On this day in 1851 - July 28th - the first successful photographic image of a solar eclipse, showing the Sun's corona, was made.

The eclipse image was a daguerrotype made by J. Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia).


Mona Evans
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