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Found in 244 Collections and/or Records:

Investigation of Circle Observations, 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 / Sub-Series: Meridian Circle Work, Observations and Reductions / File: Investigation of Circle Observations
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1770
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 Errors of West Circle from Stops, 1884 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 / File: Investigation of Circle Observations / Series: Investigation of West Circle from Stops
Item — Box 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1763
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 Errors of West Circle from Stops, 1885-04-15/1885-06-02 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 / File: Investigation of Circle Observations / Series: Investigation of West Circle from Stops
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1767
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 Errors of West Circle from Stops, 1885-06-04/1885-07-08 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 / File: Investigation of Circle Observations / Series: Investigation of West Circle from Stops
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1768
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 Errors of West Circle from Stops, 1885 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 / File: Investigation of Circle Observations / Series: Investigation of West Circle from Stops
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1769
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...

Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars, 1900 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: Early Variable Star Work / Series: Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1771
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...

Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars, 1902 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: Early Variable Star Work / Series: Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1772
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...

Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars, 1894 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: Early Variable Star Work / Series: Jupiter Eclipses and Variable Stars
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1773
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...

K'K D D', 1870 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 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1742
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...

K'K D D', 1870 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 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1743
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...

List of Polar Stars with Dates of Observations, 1885 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 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1758
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...

Location of Comparison Stars for Variables, 1894 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: Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 79Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1873
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...

Longitude Campaign: Montreal- Cambridge, 1883 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 73Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1753
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...

Lunar Brightness, 1881 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 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1829
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...

Magnitude Analysis, 1959-04-20/1959-04-20 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, phaedra2650
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...

Mars, Mars Companion Stars, ARIADNE Companion Stars, 1877-08-16/1877-10-08 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 11Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0420
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...

Margaret Mayall personal archive

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUM 294
Overview: Margaret Walton Mayall (1902-1995) was an American astronomer. After receiving her MA from Radcliffe College in 1928, she began working at the Harvard College Observatory. This collection contains 35 black and white photographs, which depict the Harvard College Observatory staff camping in southeastern Maine to watch the total solar eclipse on August 31, 1932. Also includes Mayall’s 1957 G. Bruce Blair Award and a copy of Mayall’s 1970 Manual for Observing Variable...

Measure of Plates, 1890 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: Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1818
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...

Measurement of Comp. Stars for variable with photometer, 1895/1901 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: Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 12Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0445
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...

Papers of Donald Howard Menzel, 1931-1986

FOUND IN: Harvard University Archives
Collection Identifier: HUG 4567
Overview: Donald Howard Menzel (1901-1976) taught astronomy at Harvard, and was director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 to 1966. According to the National Academy of Sciences' Biographical Memoir, "Menzel was one of the first practitioners of theoretical astrophysics in the United States and pioneered the application of quantum mechanics to astronomical spectroscopy." These papers chiefly document Menzel's professional life of research, writing, and participation in professional...

Meridian Photometer Remarks, 1941 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 / Sub-Series: Milky Way Field (MWF) and HLF Calculations
Item Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2556
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...

Meridian Photometry, 1881/1884 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: Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 78Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1869
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...

Micrometer Level, 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: Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
Item — Box 72Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1720
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...

Milky Way Field Variables, 1938 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 / Sub-Series: Milky Way Field (MWF) and HLF Calculations
Item Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2604
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...

Miscellaneous Notes and Work Plans, 1862/1869 Digital

FOUND IN: Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University / Collection: Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations / Series: Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations / File: Related Materials
Item — Box 79Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1878
Scope and Contents: This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....

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Type
Archival Object 188
Collection 56
 
Subject
Variable stars. 31
Astronomy -- Observations. 11
Astronomical clocks -- United States. 7
Asteroids. 6
Astronomy -- Research. 6
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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
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