Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia Size:XL: 100 x 100cm perched on a first floor

perched on a first floor window sill step out into space

to be shaded'

John Crowder

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Solar observatory at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia Size:XL: 100 x 100cm perched on a first floorView of a temporary astronomical observatory outside the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia in Russia. Sheds and instrument platforms can be seen on the skyline grouped around an existing small church tower. The observatory was used to record the total solar eclipse visible in Russia on 7 August 1889. Extra illustration pasted before the title page of the book Eclipse totale du soleil Aout, 1887. issued in Russian [title page also in French] by the Socit