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[Comets and Double Stars], Volume 1, 1848-11-01/1849-02-01 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0154
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1848 June Measures of the Observatory Buildings Piers and Instruments.

Ring of Saturn and other observations relating to planet including satellites; Enckes Comet; Observations of Jupiter; New comet first seen [Saturday, Nov. 25th]; Mercury; New satellite of Saturn [Dec. 18th]; Petersen's Comet; Nebula R 0h39m Dec -26 ..13'; Examination of Collimation of G[reat] R[efractor][Dec 28th]; Orion; satellite of Neptune; Notes on viewing conditions; Errors of the Equatorial [p. 605]

Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations, 1848-1877, bulk: 1848-1866

Series Identifier: KG11365-6
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....

Equatorial, 1858-09-25/1858-11-11 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0182
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Observations: Donati's Comet; Asteroid Searle; Photography; Tuttle Comet VII; Searle's Planet; Collection of Memoranda relating to naked eye view of Comet of Donati in Sept. & Oct. 1858; [newsprint clipping] Boston Daily Advertiser: The Great Comet of 1858; ephemeris of Mr. Schubert's Asteroid; Ephemeris of Comet VIII; Ephemeris of Comet V

Numerous sketches of Comet of Donati

Equatorial, 1858-11-11/1859-05-04 Digital

Item — Box 5Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0183
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....

Equatorial, Volume 1, 1846-10-01/1847-07-01 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0156
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Observations on the New Planet; Observations of Meteors over several nights; Jupiter; Possible double star; Corrections for Refraction; Observations on Neptune Oct 1846 to Jun 1847; Andromeda; Saturn; Notice f Comet sent to [list inludes J.Q. Adams, Washington D.C.; First Observations with the Great Refractor [p. 65]; Great Equatorial Observations June 30th 1847; Elements of the Comet of March 4th 1847 From Observations on March 5th, 12th, 19th

Equatorial, Volume 3, 1855-01-13/1856-04-01 Digital

Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0173
Scope and Contents: Observations: Saturn; Occultation of 19 Cancri by the Moon; Occultation of Uranus; Procyon; Occultation of Venus; Occultation of 46 Leonis; Personal Equation between W.C.B. and P.S.C.; Jupiter; Conjunction of Satellites; Neptune; Venus; Mars; Stars in the vicinity of Procyon; Ephemeris of de Vico Comet for 1855.Newspaper cutting pasted onto inner back cover: Nantucket Inquirer; Friday, Dec. 14, 1855: Letter to the Editor on discovery of a cometImages: Jupiter; Saturn;...