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- The first photos of the Sun were taken in 1845 by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Lion Foucault. In the 1860s, Warren de la Rue recorded the complete 11 year solar cycle in a series of almost 3000 images that clearly showed sunspots and other features https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/firstphoto.php 6 comments space
- In 1930, Bernard Lyot invented the coronagraph that allowed total solar eclipses to be recreated at will. It is essentially a telescope with a small disk in the focal plane to exactly cover the disk of the sun like the moon would https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2006/locations/coronagraph.php 10 comments space
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