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This is a Letter from R. K. Rangachan to R. L. Jones regarding the lunar eclipse. It is a query asking if there was a lunar eclipse visible in India on May 7, 1715. It also says that A.D.Maestro Servel and Dikshit stated in their Hindu calendar that there was a total eclipse of the sun on April 22 previously.

The item contains three pieces of information preserved in a single laminated sheet. The first document is a handwritten address slip of sending some objects from Madras Observatory to the collector of north Arcot Chittoor. The second document is an observation note on the moon eclipse on 22 January 1888. The third one is also notes of observation taken in 1960, 1964, 1969, 1972, and 1975 but the other details need to be recognized.

These photographic slides contain astronomical events, some observations like the Evershed effect, the Spectrum by Evershed, Partial phase of moon eclipse, etc.

The album contains photos taken during the lunar eclipse observation on 16th July 2000. The photographs show different phases of the lunar eclipse, from the partial to full moon.