Harvard College Observatory

Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University

Collection Identifier: KG11365-6

Scope 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,...

Planet and Satellite Observations, 1877 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / File: Miscellaneous

Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1714

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...

Reduction of Bonn Observations from 1855 to 1875, 1892 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / Sub-Series: Related Observations and Reductions

Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1814

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...

Reports on Observations of Stars in Northern Hemisphere up to 9th magnitude Pulkovo, 1879 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / File: Administrative Reports, Journals, and Memoranda

Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1816

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...

Soledad Station Visual Observations, 1951/1953 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: The HCO in the 20th c. and the Work of the Astronomical Computers / File: Related Materials

Item Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2647

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...

Star Observations, 1877 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / Sub-Series: Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions

Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1715

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...

Star Observations, 1877/1878 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / Sub-Series: Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions

Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1716

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...

Star Observations, 1869 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration / Sub-Series: Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions

Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1717

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...

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 / 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 / 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...

Harvard College Observatory

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