Transit of Venus, 6 December 1882
Date
1882
Creator
Arthur Roope Hunt (1843 - 1914, British) , Geologist
Object type
Library reference
45424
Material
Technique
Dimensions
diameter (print): 68mm
Subject
Content object
Description
The planet Venus shown in transit across the Sun seen in a clouded sky at Torquay, England, on 6 December 1882. The image was taken by A R Hunt using home-made apparatus and a Baker telescope with a 2 ¼ inch object glass.
Extra original illustration to the article “Photographing the Transit of Venus”, by A R Hunt, British Journal of Photography, 9 February 1883. Hunt described in his text the very rapid method of production: “not only were the preparations for photography begun after the transit commenced, but the pictures were all secured before the phenomenon of the transit was over at four o’ clock, when the sun with the dark spot upon it sank behind a bank of clouds. The first negative developed proved the best. The clouds make it picturesque, and it provides me with exactly what I desired, namely an interesting memento of the transit of Venus as seen from Torquay.”
The printed text appears within a larger set of collected papers written by Hunt 1873-1889 and owned by his schoolfellow John William Strutt (1842-1919) 3rd Baron Rayleigh, a President of the Royal Society.
Arthur Roope Hunt was a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Linnean Society.
Extra original illustration to the article “Photographing the Transit of Venus”, by A R Hunt, British Journal of Photography, 9 February 1883. Hunt described in his text the very rapid method of production: “not only were the preparations for photography begun after the transit commenced, but the pictures were all secured before the phenomenon of the transit was over at four o’ clock, when the sun with the dark spot upon it sank behind a bank of clouds. The first negative developed proved the best. The clouds make it picturesque, and it provides me with exactly what I desired, namely an interesting memento of the transit of Venus as seen from Torquay.”
The printed text appears within a larger set of collected papers written by Hunt 1873-1889 and owned by his schoolfellow John William Strutt (1842-1919) 3rd Baron Rayleigh, a President of the Royal Society.
Arthur Roope Hunt was a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Linnean Society.
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