In 1842 Italian physicist Gian Alessandro Majocchi attempted to photograph the total solar eclipse that took place that July. Surviving records indicate he only had partial success.

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The daguerreotype is a direct-positive process, creating a highly detailed image on a sheet of copper plated with a thin coat of silver without the use of a negative.

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A daguerreotype of a solar eclipse taken on July 28, 1851, is the first known successful photograph of the solar corona. This image was made at the Royal Prussian Observatory in Königsberg by Johann Julius Friedrich Berkowski with the aid of a telescope.

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In 1900, Smithsonian photographer Thomas Smillie, rigged cameras to seven telescopes and successfully made eight glass-plate negatives, ranging in size from eleven by fourteen inches to thirty by thirty inches. His work was considered an amazing photographic and scientific achievement.

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Annie Maunder photographed an enormous ray-like structure appearing to burst from the Sun: a coronal streamer. She came to India in 1898 to capture the total solar eclipse.

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