Harvard College Observatory
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview:
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...
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,...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.2
Overview:
The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond document the founding, growth, and scientific research of the Harvard College Observatory primarily from 1840 to 1859. Also chronicled is the Observatory’s participation in advances made in astronomy, stellar photography, meteorology, continental exploration, and technological improvements in astronomical instruments in the early nineteenth century. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), American astronomer and instrument...
Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, 1906-2005
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 529
Overview:
Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer at Harvard and Yale Universities and at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket.
The HCO in the 20th c. and the Work of the Astronomical Computers, 1886-1973, bulk: 1900-1935
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
Series Identifier: KG11365-6
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations, data calculations, and research notes produced by astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory throughout the first half of the 20th century. Most of the materials date between 1900 and 1935.Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: Williamina Fleming, Evelyn Leland, Solon Irving Bailey, Antonia Maury, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Edward S. King, Sarah E. Breslin, Annie Jump Cannon, Boris Petrovich Gerasmovich, Leon...
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration, 1870-1936, bulk: 1870-1905
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
Series Identifier: KG11365-6
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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- Type
- Collection 4
- Archival Object 2
- Subject
- Astronomers -- United States. 4
- Variable stars. 4
- Astronomy -- History. 3
- Astronomy -- Observations. 3
- Chronometers. 3
- Correspondence. 3
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 3
- Time measurements. 3
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Asteroids. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Comets. 2
- Diaries 2
- Financial records. 2
- Meteors. 2
- Nebulae. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photographs 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Women astronomers--United States 2
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Account books. 1
- Aging--United States 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers 1
- Astronomical instruments 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Drawings 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Horology. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Memoirs 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Mothers and daughters--United States 1
- Nantucket (Mass.) 1
- Obituaries 1
- Older women--United States 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Poems 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Scientists 1
- Scientists--United States 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Variable stars--Catalogs 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Women 1 ∧ less
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