Taking a photo of the moon today is no mean feat. It is enough to have a slightly better camera or mobile phone. In the days when the phenomenon of a super or blood moon occurs, social networks are flooded with photos of this Earth satellite.
On this day, January 2, 1839, photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph of the moon. And not only that. It was also the first astrophotography ever taken.
Daguerre was a French inventor and pioneer of photography.
As the portal writes The world of science, this first astrophotography was preceded by numerous attempts at "terrestrial" photography. In 1793, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first to work on methods to record light.
He performed the first experiments in 1814, and two years later he successfully temporarily recorded the first photographs on paper. It wasn't until 1822 that he took the first permanent photographs.
Unfortunately, this first photo of the Moon was not preserved.