- Subject
- Photography
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Transferred from the University Observatory, Oxford.
- Primary inscriptions
- Scratched on glass: '1888 Jan 17 20m'. Envelope inscribed: '1888 Jany. 17 Orion Nebula 15/80 Mirror Exposure 20 Minutes haze - then cloudy After resilvering'.
- Other inscriptions
- R. T. Gunther has added inch symbols (") and 'Diam.' and 'Focal length.' to the 15/80 in the envelope inscription, and 'Very early dry plate not used before 1886.' on the back of the envelope.
- Physical material
- Glass
- Inventory No
- 89769
Description
Gelatine glass negative, early type, on thick glass. Astronomical photograph of the Orion Nebula and adjacent stars. Negative is stored in a University Observatory embossed envelope. This is an early example of a dry plate.
This is one of the earliest photographs of the Orion Nebula, first successfully photographed by A. A. Common in January 1883.
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