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Ever since 1842 — when the first photoheliogram was made by A. Fizeau and J. Foucault — photography has been a successful companion of astronomy, and its scientific importance has not dimished up to the present. Its ability to accumulate a large amount of information has not yet been exhausted.
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M. Minnaert (1953): “The Photosphere” in The Solar System. I.The Sun, ed. by P. Kuiper ( Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago )
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Guman, I. (1988). Photographic Calibration of Sunspot Equidensitograms. In: Marx, S. (eds) Astrophotography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83268-0_16
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