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Henry Draper

Henry Draper took the first successful photograph of the Great Orion Nebula on September 30, 1880 using his 11 inch Clark Brothers photographic refractor he took a 50 minute exposure. Draper was one of the pioneers of astrophotography and he took the first stellar spectrum in 1872 that showed absorption lines.

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