Skip to main content

Harvard College Observatory

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Clock Errors, General Catalog, Instrumental Constants, 1874/1875 Digital

Item — Box 70Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1680
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...

Clock Errors, General Catalog, Instrumental Constants, 1878/1879 Digital

Item — Box 70Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1681
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...

Clock Errors, General Catalog, Instrumental Constants, 1883 Digital

Item — Box 70Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1682
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...

Clock Errors, Polar Catalog, Instrumental Constants, 1872/1873 Digital

Item — Box 70Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1679
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...

Comparison of Waltham Clock with South clock, 1878 Digital

Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1779
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and administrative notes from the beginning of Edward Pickering’s tenure as Director of the Harvard College Observatory with the bulk of the materials dating from 1870 to 1905. The notebooks in this series feature early efforts in variable star analysis and meridian circle work, including HCO efforts to contribute zone measurements to contemporary revisions of the Bonn Durchmusterung. Additional records in this series...

Filtered By

  • Type: Archival Object X
  • Subject: Astronomical clocks -- United States. X