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Morehouse's Comet Stereograph

Morehouse's Comet Stereograph
A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of Watch the skies!—UFOs, airplanes, birds, clouds, or anything else that might be up there.

"16645 Morehouse's Comet, Yerkes Observatory."

A stereograph of Morehouse's Comet, or Comet Morehouse, which Wikipedia describes as "a bright, non-periodic comet discovered by US astronomer Daniel Walter Morehouse and first observed on September 1, 1908."

This stereo card was one in a series of images of the sun, the moon, planets, meteors, and comets published by the Keystone View Company in Meadville, Pennsylvania. For an interesting discussion of these photos, see Carmen Pérez Gonzalez, "From the Observatory to the Classroom: Space Images in the Keystone “600 SET” and “1200 SET,”International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 2017): 40-62.

See also the text on the back of the stereograph.

Morehouse's Comet Stereograph—Description

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Comments
 Stephen Blanchard
Stephen Blanchard
Very interesting card - though I'm not sure there would be much of a 3D effect with such a distant object.
4 years ago.
Alan Mays club has replied to Stephen Blanchard
I wondered about that, too. The "From the Observatory to the Classroom" article I referenced does contain a quote about how a stereograph of the moon would require a view from a vantage point "such as would be seen by a giant with eyes thousands of miles apart" (p. 45). The article discusses how the stereographic effect was achieved (using equipment containing prisms or else incorporating photos of different stages of the moon's oscillations, if I understood the explanation correctly).Evidently similar techniques were employed to capture Morehouse's Comet stereographically (see pp. 56-57 of the article).
4 years ago.

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