@RoySocChem Astronomers had observed red flame-like prominences around the solar disc during total eclipses, but didn't know whether they came from the Sun, the Moon, or the Earth's atmosphere. De La Rue's precise photography proved that they came from the Sun #CollectionsUnited @RoySocChem 
@RoySocChem As an astronomer and chemist, Warren De La Rue was able to carry out pioneering work in astrophotography. He was the first to use the wet collodion process instead of daguerrotypy for capturing celestial objects, and made the the first lunar stereograph images #CollectionsUnited
@RoySocChem The Kew Photoheliograph, designed by Warren De La Rue for the @royalsociety , was used at Kew Observatory, then at @ROGAstronomers, and is now in the care of the @ScienceMuseum collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8186…. #CollectionsUnited #MuseumFromHome
