Region of the Milky Way in Sagittarius, Milky Way in the area of the constellation Sagittarius, page, photomechanical print, inscription: 'Showing a double black aperture.', number: 'Plate V.', photographer: Edward Emerson Barnard, cliché maker: anonymous, c. 1890 - in or before 1893, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 148 mm x width 107 mm, Milky Way, A grainy monochrome image filled with numerous small pale speckles and a few larger irregular light patches scattered across a darker background, with dense clusters of speckles forming lighter textured areas and some diffuse, cloudlike bright regions near the top and center.
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Region of the Milky Way in Sagittarius, Milky Way in the area of the constellation Sagittarius, page, photomechanical print, inscription: 'Showing a double black aperture.', number: 'Plate V.', photographer: Edward Emerson Barnard, cliché maker: anonymous, c. 1890 - in or before 1893, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 148 mm x width 107 mm, Milky Way, A grainy monochrome image filled with numerous small pale speckles and a few larger irregular light patches scattered across a darker background, with dense clusters of speckles forming lighter textured areas and some diffuse, cloudlike bright regions near the top and center.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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Region Milky Way Sagittarius area constellation Sagittarius page photomechanical print inscription Showing double black aperture number Plate V photographer Edward Emerson Barnard cliché maker anonymous c 1890 - 1893 paper collotype photoprint height 148 mm x width 107 mm grainy monochrome image filled numerous small pale speckles larger irregular light patches scattered across darker background dense clusters speckles forming lighter textured areas diffuse cloudlike bright regions near top center

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