1874 · Observation Station · Werk 207 von 1.871

A British transit of Venus station on Kerguelen, portable wooden observing huts with sliding roofs, the photoheliograph a long straight telescope tube about eight feet long on an equatorial mounting on a solid pier inside its own hut, a plain lens at the sky end and a square wooden camera box holding the photographic plate at the lower end, the tube pointed at the sun, a tent camp on the treeless slope, grey sky and bare rock.