'The Village of Rivabellosa'

View of the village of Rivabellosa, Spain; showing houses and inhabitants.

In 1860, the British astronomer Warren De la Rue, inventor of the photoheliograph, took his device to Rivabellosa in order to photograph the total solar eclipse which occurred on the 18 July of that year. The photographs obtained on that occasion proved beyond doubt the solar character of the prominences or red flames, seen around the limb of the moon during a solar eclipse.

Object Details

ID: PAH6224
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
People: de la Rue, Warren
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Herschel Collection
Measurements: Sheet: 383 x 255 mm
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