USNO solar eclipse expedition, 1925

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Carl Clarence Kiess (1887-1967, left), US astronomer and physicist, and Frank Bowers Littell (1869-1951, right), US astronomer, on board the dirigible USS Los Angeles on 24th January 1925 to observe the total solar eclipse. The USS Los Angeles was carrying a 46-inch () camera to photograph the eclipse.

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