Harvard College Observatory
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
Collection Identifier: KG11365-6Scope and Contents:
This collection contains over 2500 logbooks and notebooks produced by the Harvard Computers and early Harvard astronomers, many of which feature datasets and processing observations relating to the HCO’s collection of astronomical glass plate photographs. The Harvard Computers were a team of women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory under the supervision of Director Edward Charles Pickering (1877-1919). Notable women include: Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury,...
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...
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- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Astronomers -- United States. 2
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Astronomy -- Observations. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Financial records. 2
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Time measurements. 2
- Account books. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, MA) 1
- Horology. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Photographs 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
- Variable stars. 1
- Women in astronomy -- History. 1 ∧ less
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