Harvard College Observatory
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Found in 244 Collections and/or Records:
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.37
Overview:
Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976), astronomer and astrophysicist, served as director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 until his retirement in 1966. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Donald H. Menzel consist chiefly of incoming and outgoing letters with a variety of correspondents, including many notable scientists from the United States and abroad, and document the research and administrative activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1951 to 1969....
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
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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 the Harvard College Observatory Director Leo Goldberg
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.38.5
Overview:
Leo Goldberg (1913-1987), astronomer and astrophysicist, was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1966 to 1971. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director Leo Goldberg document his tenure as head of the Observatory from 1966 to 1969, and consist of correspondence, memoranda, research proposals, and reports related to the scientific and administrative functions of the Observatory, as well as its relationship with other observatories, projects, and organizations,...
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
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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...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director's Office
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Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 630.95.3
Scope and Contents:
The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director's Office
contains memoranda, reports, minutes, budgets, and correspondence from the Physics, Astronomy, and Earth and Planetary Sciences departments. The series also includes documents from the Oak Ridge Observatory, the Donald Menzel Memorial Service, and the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. It includes materials for visiting committees, curriculum vitae, candidate evaluations, and other records concerning appointments, as well as...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Observations of zodiacal light and the gegenschein
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.263
Overview:
The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (founded in 1890) were merged in 1973 to form The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The systematic examination of zodiacal light and the gegenschein, optical phenomena associated with dust in the plane of the planets, began at the Harvard College Observatory in 1877. The records in this collection, including notes, star charts, and sketches, document the study of zodiacal light and the gegenschein by...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.150.5
Overview:
The Harvard College Observatory's Phillips Library was founded in 1848. The Records of the Harvard College Observatory Phillips Library contain eight bound volumes, mostly dating from 1858 to approximately 1932, which document the published works obtained by the library.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory : Photographs, 1887-approximately 1930? and undated
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Harvard University Archives
Series Identifier: UAV 630.271
Overview:
These photographs depict the activities, personnel, and research of the Harvard College Observatory, including Observatory personnel, buildings, equipment, and surrounding landscape in Cambridge and at observatory stations in Colorado, California, possibly Jamaica, and South America (chiefly Peru). Research was primarily astronomical, but involved some meteorological observation to determine where the Observatory stations should be sited. Approximately 600 of the photographs depict South...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records kept by Administrative Officer Robert G. Reed
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.50.xx
Overview:
The records in this series, kept by Harvard College Observatory Administrative Officer Robert G. Reed, including correspondence, memoranda, agreements, and reports, document the management and research program of the Harvard College Observatory, chiefly from 1966 to 1982. The records highlight the financial challenges of maintaining an astronomy program at Harvard, the astronomical work conducted at the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station at Fort Davis, Texas, Boyden Station in South Africa, and...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records of the Administrative Assistant to Director Donald H. Menzel kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.50
Overview:
The records in this series, kept by Velma A. Adams and Helen S. Federer, document the restoration program of the Harvard College Observatory, which was led by Donald H. Menzel and aimed to replace aging buildings and equipment, centralize financial management, simplify business processes, and support the Observatory's scientific program between 1953 and 1964.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory: records related to astronomical research
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.230
Overview:
Circular letters, meeting minutes, memoranda, reports, and other records in this series document the activities and astronomical research of the Harvard College Observatory from 1877 to 1957. The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (founded in 1890) merged in 1973 to form The Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Center is a research institute that carries out studies in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory relating to meteor research kept by Willard J. Fisher
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.30
Overview:
Willard James Fisher (1867-1934), physicist and astronomer, was a Harvard Lecturer of Astronomy and Research Associate at the Harvard College Observatory from 1922 to 1934. Fisher's fields of interest were lunar eclipse phenomena and meteoric astronomy. This series documents Willard J. Fisher's meteor research from 1924 to 1934 conducted at the Harvard College Observatory.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory relating to photographic photometry kept by Edward S. King
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.35
Overview:
Edward Skinner King (1861-1931), an astronomer, was an observer (1887-1913), assistant professor (1913-1926), and Phillips Professor of Astronomy (1926-1931) at the Harvard College Observatory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This series documents King's work in photographic photometry, a technique used in astronomy to measure the flux or intensity of light radiated by astronomical objects, at the Harvard College Observatory from 1899 to 1931.
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Time Service
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Harvard University Archives
Sub-Fonds Identifier: UAV 630.377
Overview:
In 1872, under Director Joseph Winlock, the Harvard College Observatory established the world’s first public time service, which it provided as a commercial service until 1892. The Observatory sold its time service to railroads and businesses by sending hourly signals over Boston’s fire alarm system and distributing time across the region via Western Union telegraph lines; this work eventually resulted in the establishment of the country's first time zone. The Records of the Harvard College...
Records related to construction at Oak Ridge Station
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.43x
Overview:
Building specifications in this series document the erection of a Central Building at Oak Ridge Station in 1932, and blueprints highlight landscape improvements around the Oak Ridge Lodge in 1938. The Harvard College Observatory operated the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, first constructed in 1932.
Records related to the Harvard College Observatory Series of books on astronomy
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Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: UAV 630.440.xx
Overview:
In the 1940s, a series of nine books by Harvard College Observatory staff members, edited by Harlow Shapley and Bart J. Bok, was published to present an overview of astronomy to teachers, students, amateur astronomers, and the public. This series documents the production of the first nine books published in the Harvard College Observatory astronomy book series.
Instrumental Constants 1870-71, depending on new Pulkowa Places, 1870-11-10/1871-12-17 Digital
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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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
Item — Box 11Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0422
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1871/1872 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
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File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1688
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1872/1873 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
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File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1689
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1873/1874 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
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File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1690
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1875 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:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
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File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1691
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1876 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
/
Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
/
File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
/
File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1692
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1877 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
/
File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1693
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...
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates, 1877 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
/
Series:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
/
File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
/
File:
Instrumental Constants depending on Pulkova Coordinates
Item — Box 71Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1694
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...
Investigation of Circle - Discussion, 1875 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:
Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions
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File:
Investigation of Circle Observations
Item — Box 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1762
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...
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Type
- Archival Object 188
- Collection 56
- Subject
- Variable stars. 31
- Astronomy -- Observations. 11
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 7
- Asteroids. 6
- Astronomy -- Research. 6
- Chronograph. 6
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 6
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 6
- Astronomers -- United States. 5
- Astronomical photometry. 5
- Astronomy. 5
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 5
- Photographs 5
- Telescopes. 5
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 4
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 4
- Correspondence. 4
- Diaries 4
- Meteors. 4
- Time measurements. 4
- Astronomy -- History. 3
- Chronometers. 3
- Comets. 3
- Financial records. 3
- Stars -- Clusters. 3
- Sun -- Research. 3
- Women astronomers--United States 3
- Amateur astronomy. 2
- Asteroids--Orbits. 2
- Astronomers 2
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
- Astronomical photography. 2
- Boyden Station (Bloemfontein, South Africa) 2
- Horology. 2
- Manuscripts (documents) 2
- Milky Way 2
- Nebulae. 2
- Observatories. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Photoprints. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Scientists 2
- Scientists--United States 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Time -- Systems and standards -- United States. 2
- Women in astronomy -- History. 2
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Account books. 1
- Aging--United States 1
- Albums. 1
- American Association of Variable Star Observers. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers -- Archives. 1
- Astronomers--United States 1
- Astronomers. 1
- Astronomical instruments 1
- Astronomical observatories -- South Africa. 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy -- Societies, etc. 1
- Astronomy -- Study and teaching. 1
- Astrophysics. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Autobiographies. 1
- Black-and-white photographs 1
- Black-and-white photographs. 1
- Boyden Station (Arequipa, Peru) 1
- Clocks and watches -- Marketing. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Contracts. 1
- Cryptography. 1
- Diplomas. 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Drawings 1
- Eclipses, Solar -- 1973. 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Family records 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Glass plate negatives 1
- Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, MA) 1
- Harvard College Observatory -- Photographs. 1
- Harvard University -- Finance. 1
- Harvard University -- Women. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lantern slides. 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Letterpress copybooks. 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Letters. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Maine. 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Maps 1
- Medals 1
- Memoirs 1 ∧ less
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