ON THIS DAY IN SPACE! JULY 28, 1851: THE 1ST PHOTO OF A TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE WAS TAKEN BY A PRUSSIAN DAGUERREOTYPIST

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On July 28, 1851, the first-ever photo of a total solar eclipse was recorded by a Prussian daguerreotypist named Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski. It changed solar astronomy.

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