- John Adams Whipple
- William Cranch Bond
- The first telescope of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO), “The Great Refractor” was installed in 1847. That telescope was the largest in the United States from its installation until 1867. With it, the first daguerreotype ever made of a star, the bright Vega, was taken by John A. Whipple working under W.C. Bond, following several years of experiments using smaller telescopes.
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