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Passage de Vnus
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Wikipedia article
'Passage de Vnus' is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antnio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'.
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A 2005 study of the surviving material concluded that all the extant plates made with the photographic revolver are practice plates shot with a model, and that none of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse seem to have survived or have not yet been located.
See also
* 'The Horse in Motion', 1878 series of photographs
* Transit of Venus, 1874
References
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