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Thomas Wedgwood takes the first known images of the sun.
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Joseph Niepce produces first permanent image
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Henry Fox Talbot created permanent images using silver chloride
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Henry Talbot comes up with the name of his process he calls calotype
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Australian astronomer G.A. Mojocchi takes the first photograph of a partial solar eclipse
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J. Phillips photographs the moon with a 159 mm refractor
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George Phillips Bond shows that the magnitude of stars could be derived from astronomical photos
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Edwin Hubble using the 2.54 m Hooker telescope was able to identify Cepheid variables in the Andromeda Galaxy and its distance
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The Hubble telescope was launched
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The James web telescope was launched