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Map of Eclipse Expedition Sites

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For each eclipse between 1889 and 1932, the Lick Observatory, sent one or more astronomers to observe it along the path of totality (places where the moon's shadow will entirely eclipse the sun). Some passed close to home in California, and others required journeying much further afield.

These expeditions were often privately funded, allowing the Lick astronomers to choose locations that required time and expense to reach.

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  1. The Lick Observatory: Eclipse Expeditions Danielle Crawford

Contents of this tag:

  1. Workers making thatching for the instrument shelters, Flint Island, 1908.
  2. Inner Corona, photographed by W.H. Wright, Fryeburg, 1932
  3. 40 ft camera in Aswan, Egypt, 1905
  4. Rehearsal of eclipse program, unknown photographer, Wallal, 1922
  5. Second view of 40 ft camera in Aswan, Egypt, 1905
  6. Working with a glass plate, Wallal, 1922
  7. Astronomer and equipment, unknown photographer, Thomaston, GA, 1900
  8. Chart of the 1889 eclipse, California
  9. Mrs Campbell sitting upon a turtle, Flint Island, 1922
  10. 40ft camera, Jeur, India, 1898
  11. Photograph of a sunspot, Charles Perrine, Lick Observatory, 1897
  12. Page from Elizabeth Campbell's Russian Eclipse Album, 1914
  13. Eclipse camp, Wallal, 1922
  14. Women washing dishes, Wallal, 1922
  15. Mrs Campbell at the polar axis, Wallal, 1922
  16. Bartlett Springs eclipse site, photographer unknown, Bartlett Springs, CA, 1889
  17. Eclipse camp, Cartwright, 1905
  18. Equipment at Camptonville, CA, 1930
  19. Loading equipment for Thomaston eclipse site, New Orleans, 1900
  20. Working at the base of the 40ft camera, Wallal, 1922
  21. 40ft camera at Goldendale, WA, 1918
  22. Prominences enlarged 13 times, taken by W.H. Wright, Fryeburg, 1932
  23. Site Plan, GA, 1900
  24. View of the Schaeberle Camera at Padang, 1901
  25. 40ft camera, Padang, Indonesia, 1901
  26. 40ft camera at Akkeshi Japan, 1896
  27. Eclipse camp, Flint Island, 1908
  28. Group on steamer for Wallal, 1922
  29. Hand drawn plan of the eclipse camp, Thomaston, GA, 1901
  30. Wallal Eclipse, 1922
  31. 40ft camera at Ensanada, Mexico, 1923
  32. Eclipse camp, Alhama de Aragon, Spain, 1905
  33. 15ft Einstein Camera, Wallal, 1922
  34. Polar Axis, GA, 1900
  35. 40ft camera at Mina los Bronces, Chile, 1893
  36. Solar Corona, taken by J.M. Schaeberle, Chile, 1893
  37. 40ft camera at Thomaston, GA, 1900
  38. Einstein Plate, taken by W. W. Campbell, Wallal, 1922
  39. Equipment at site, Thomaston, GA, 1900
  40. Equipment on Mt Whitney, CA, 1909
  41. Wallal Eclipse, 1922
  42. Instruments in Fryeburg, ME, 1932
  43. Expedition marker, Wallal, 1922
  44. View of entire camp, Fryeburg, ME
  45. Corona Spectrograph in Fryeburg
  46. Chart of path of 1900 Solar Eclipse