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ASTR1401C Lab 8 ReviewLouis Jacques Mande Daguerre - correct answer ✔✔Astronomer who took the first successful photo of
the moon in March 1840, which took 20 minutes to expose
Heliocentric model - correct answer ✔✔Model of the solar system that puts the Sun at the center
Harvard College Observatory - correct answer ✔✔Observatory which was able to get better pictures of
moon using a 15" refractor
Lewis M. Rutherford - correct answer ✔✔Using an 11" refactor constructed under his immediate
supervision used the first telescope corrected especially for photography rays, providing one of the best
images of the Moon in New York. (March 1865)
Daguerreotype Plate - correct answer ✔✔Media used to take the first photo of the Sun in 1845, first
commercially successful photographic process used this, invented by Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Lick Observatory - correct answer ✔✔Place where the first picture to show the real structure of the
Milky Way was taken at, with 3hr 7min exposure time
The first Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) (1950s), The follow-up POSS-II survey (1990s), The UK
Schmidt survey of Southern Declinations - correct answer ✔✔Famous astronomical surveys taken using
photographic plates
Collotype Photographic Plate - correct answer ✔✔Media which consisted of a plate of glass or metal
with a substrate composed of gelatin and dried at a controlled temperature, used at Lick Observatory to
take the first picture of the real structure of the Milky Way
Superior image quality & stability - correct answer ✔✔Plates are preferred over films for astronomy due
to
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