Passage de Vénus

Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'.[1][2][3]

The team that captured the transit of Venus in 1874

It is the oldest film on IMDb and Letterboxd.

A 2005 study of the surviving material concluded that all the extant plates made with the photographic revolver are practice plates shot with a model and that none of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse seem to have survived.[4]

See also

References
  1. Doucet, Jean-François. "La "photographie du temps" avant le cinéma" ["Time photography" before cinema]. www.jf-doucet.com (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  2. Débarbat, Suzanne; Launay, Françoise (2006). "The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics". Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. adsabs.harvard.edu. 9 (2): 167. Bibcode:2006JAHH....9..167D. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  3. Rogério De Freitas Mourão, Ronaldo (2005). "The Brazilian contribution to the observation of the transit of Venus". IAU Colloq. 196: Transits of Venus: New Views of the Solar System and Galaxy. adsabs.harvard.edu. 2004: 154. Bibcode:2005tvnv.conf..154R. doi:10.1017/S1743921305001353. S2CID 140645257.
  4. "2005JHA....36...57L Page 70".
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