Radiance of Tycho
Book TitleAtlas Photographique de la Lune, Fascicule No. 7, plate XXXVI
Artist
Loewy & Puiseux
(French, Maurice Loewy (1833-1907); Pierre Henri Puiseux (1855-1928))
Date1903
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 22 3/8 x 18 inches (56.85 x 45.72 cm)
Sheet: 32 x 23 3/8 inches (81.28 x 59.39 cm)
Sheet: 32 x 23 3/8 inches (81.28 x 59.39 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2010.18.23.2
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionDetail image of the moon's rough surface. Darkness fills the top two corners.Exhibition HistoryHeavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 11 - November 13, 2011, no cat.
French astronomers Maurice Loewy and Pierre Puiseux collaborated to produce a photographic atlas of the moon. This view pictures Tycho, one of the moon’s most prominent craters. The project took fourteen years to complete, as weather conditions needed to be perfect (only fifty or sixty nights per year were clear enough to photograph). They made approximately 6,000 photographs, using several of the largest and finest telescopes of the day. A selection of these images was published by the observatory in individual volumes over several years.
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