In 1890, E. S. Holden, the Director of the Lick Observatory, made the announcement in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, wich signalled the beginning of E. E. Barnard work in using the Crocker Astrograph to photograph the star fields of the "Milky Way" with the Willard lens, a 5 inch Dallmeyer camera. During the period 1892 to 1895 E. E. Barnard took 89 images mainly of regions near to the Milky Way. |