We examine the year 1839 as John William Draper makes the first celestial photograph of the moon, and 1849 as William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple capture the first Moon photo through a telescope .

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAoFn23htE4

https://lightsinthedark.com/2016/03/23/this-is-the-oldest-surviving-photo-of-the-moon/

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/john-william-draper

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Cranch-Bond

http://www.artdeciel.com/astrophotography-telescope-detail.aspx?Telescope_ID=28

https://time.com/3805947/the-first-photograph-of-the-moon/

https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/18