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Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...
Orbit of Asteroids 109 and 112, 1871/1874 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors
Item — Box 11Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0432
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...
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