CELESTIAL CINEMAby Compasswallahtwitter: @fadesingh

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Astronomers studying an eclipseBy Antoine Caron (1571)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Rudolph II and Tycho Brahe in Prague,Painting by Eduard Ender (1855)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Some instruments of Tycho Brahe

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

How A Solar Eclipse Happens, from A New Astronomy by David Todd(1897)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

The Solar System, from A New Astronomy by David Todd(1897)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Prisms of Joseph von Fraunhaufer, Munich

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Fraunhaufer demonstrates a spectroscope

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Bunsen and Kirchhoff see a burning city in the distance.Kirchhoff makes a prophecy for the next eclipse.

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Solar Eclipse by Wilhelm Kranz(1887)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

King Mongkut of Siam ( Thailand)And his French eclipse party in 1868

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The Observatory at Madras

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Hmm....crazy natives.

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Early photograph of Madras Observatory

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Pogsons's hand colored spectrum of the sun,The first evidence of helium (1868).

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Helium found in the Sun!.........butMendeleev refuses to believe it.

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Solar eclipse by Trouvelot (1878)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Jupiter as painted by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1880)

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Mars as painted by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (1877)

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Why are transits important?

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Why are transits important?What is the Black Drop Effect?

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Jules Janssen in Japan for the 1874 Transit of Venus with his Revolving Camera.

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The Treachery of ImagesBy René Magritte Beware of science!!

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Cela ne veut pas un pistolet!

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Cela ne veut pas un chasseur!

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

René Magritte

Try carrying this camera on an airplane........

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Chronophotograph by Étienne-Jules Marey

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Same stuff

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

More chronophotography........faster and Faster. Onwards to 24 frames per second,The magic speed. .

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

The Lumiere brothers nail it........

CELESTIAL CINEMAa talk by Compasswallah

Finally, an Item song. Thank you, astronomy.

Shukriya!for coming...I'm @fadesingh on twitter

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