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Galileo created an instrument with a one-and-a-half-inch lens displayed in an ornate frame. Lenses fitted into wooden tubes just a few feet long.
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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre discovered the ability to create a permanent image on a photographic plate-- a thin film of polished silver on a copper base.
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John William Draper was the first person to take an astrophotograph of the moon through a 12" telescope.
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Lord Rosse completed his reflecting telescope called "Leviathan of Parsontown" in Ireland and discovered the first spiral nebulae with it.
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William Cranch Bond and J.A. Whipple took a daguerreotype of the star Vega.
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George Eastmen invented a machine to coat plates with emulsion so that the plates could be produced in mass numbers and more quickly.
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Professor Henry Draper photographed the Orion Nebula-- the first photo of a deep sky object.
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George Eastman invented dry, transparent, and flexible photographic film and the Kodak cameras that could use the film.
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The grainy black and white photos were taken with a 35 mm motion picture camera riding on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missle Range.
took pic every 1 1/2 seconds; rocket borne camera went straight up and fell back down to earth minutes later -
The telescope was lifted into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery and has recorded our universe ever since bringing home new discoveries and information about the universe.
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The Mar's Orbital Camera took the first image of Earth as seen from another planet.
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The twin-mirrored Large Binocular Telescope saw first light in Arizona- able to deliver images ten times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope's.
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The first photo from high above the north pole of Saturn towards the clouds and ring system below, taken from the Cassini spacecraft 700,000 miles from Saturn.
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The first light image from STEREO A, a NASA spacecraft, taken with an extreme ultraviolet telescope and shows a close-up of loops in a magnetically active region at 1 million degrees celcius.
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The first image taken by the Curiosity rover and the first close up image of Mar's Gale Crater.