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Show REMARICABLE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON. The New York correspondent of the. Philadelphia Enquirer writes: A. geutleman o tliia city, well known as an astronomer and amateur photographer, photo-grapher, has BUCCcodQd in, taking photo-graplis photo-graplis of tho moon, with a beauty and accuracy far exceeding anything of tho kind 'previously accomplished in this country .or in Europe; ia&t evening, at a private exhibition of tho Dissolving Yiqws. of Messrs. Marsh and Ivayq, who have recently arrived, from England, Eng-land, theO delineations of lunar sccn-ery, sccn-ery, being subjectcd"to thd'operation of tlieir apparatus, wcro-reproduced and ; magnified with, tho wosWivid effect, each view being twCnty-fivo feet isquaro. j The result is of tho greatest interest rnot only to astronomers but to those, fwhOj Arith less scientific curiosity, havo so often watched tho moon. A larger 'mponthan was ever seen by mortal eyes "before, was projected upon, the screen. "Tho picture of the half-moOn, ; tho volcanic hollow, ono side of which the sun was lighting, while tho other remained in gloom, mado a splendid show. In the full moon, beside the great seas, the most ' striking object was the mountain of Tycho, from which great mountain ridges p f light streamed off in every direction, liko rays from a sun. |