This is a 1933 Astro Berlin Tachon 52mm f\/0.95 lens. It was in fact the first f\/0.95 ever to hit the market.<\/p>\n
Astro was founded by three hobby astronomers who loved to shoot the night skies from Earth, but 40 years after the company\u2019s founding, their legendary Tachon would actually see the other side of our atmosphere. NASA took the lens to space with the Mercury Atlas 9 mission on a highly modified 24\u00d724mm Robot camera, so Gordon Cooper could capture some interesting stuff around how our atmosphere interacts with cosmic light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a 1933 Astro Berlin Tachon 52mm f\/0.95 lens. It was in fact the first f\/0.95 ever to hit the market. Astro was founded by three hobby astronomers who loved to shoot the night skies from Earth, but 40 years after the company\u2019s founding, their legendary Tachon would actually see the other side of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[32,50,52,51,34,49,20],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rare-glass","tag-astro-berlin","tag-f-0-95","tag-mercury-atlas-9","tag-nasa","tag-rare-lenses","tag-tachon","tag-vintage-lenses"],"yoast_head":"\n