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has now become part of the routine work of
an observatory.
In 1845 Foucault and Fizeau took a da-
guerreotype photograph of the sun. In 1850
Bond produced one of the moon of great
beauty, Draper having made some attempts
at an even earlier date. But astronomical
photography really owes its beginning to De
la Rue, who used the collodion process for
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