photograph of solar halo
Date: 1883 - 1886
Inventory Number: 2007-1-0030
Classification: Photographic Plate
Subject:
Maker: Louis Jules Duboscq (French, 1817 - 1886)
Maker: Jules Duboscq & Philibért François Pellin (1885 - 1912)
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Dimensions:
8.7 × 8.7 × 0.5 cm (3 7/16 × 3 7/16 × 3/16 in.)
Material:
Description:
This object appears to be a photographic plate showing the halo of the Sun (or of another artificial light source). Duboscq and his successor Pellin made several kind of instruments that could have captured this sort of phenomenon. The dating of this object is based on the most recent signature found on the plate.
Signedon paper glued on plate: Jules DUBOSCQ, 21, rue de l'Odeon, Paris / halos
on paper glued on plate: Mon Jules DUBOSCQ- Ph. PELLIN Succ
on paper glued on plate: Mon Jules DUBOSCQ- Ph. PELLIN Succ