From: Tamzen Cannoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11 April, 2004 1:45:23 PM PDT Subject: Quicktime movie of the 1882 transit of Venus
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/sun/article_1187_1.asp
In late 1882, Massachusetts astronomer David Peck Todd traveled to California to photograph the transit of Venus from the summit of Mount Hamilton, where a solar photographic telescope made by the renowned optical firm Alvan Clark & Sons waited among the stacks of bricks and timbers from which Lick Observatory was rising. As the transit unfolded on December 6th, Todd obtained a superb series of plates under perfect skies. His 147 glass negatives were carefully stored in the mountain vault....
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Fast-forward 120 years. Spurred by a reference in one of Todd's letters in Lick's Mary Lea Shane Archives, Bill Sheehan and I found all 147 negatives, still in good condition, at the observatory.
