Needlepoint of supernova CAS-A, created approximately 1976, digital images,
Scope and Content
The images in this series illustrate Gaposchkin's design and execution of a needlepoint based on an astronomical image.
Dates
- 1924, 1950s-1990s, 2000
Physical Description
2003
Conditions on Use and Access
Online digital images are open for research. Permission of the Harvard University Archives is required for access to the Dyer's and biographical material. Letters are closed for 80 years.
Extent
0.2 cubic feet (3 pamphlet binders, 1 accordion folder, and 6 digital images)0.002 gigabytes*
Biographical Note
In 1976 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was asked by a friend, John R. Whitman, to produce a needlepoint based on the images of the supernova Cassiopeia-A (Cas-A). The images had originally appeared in an article in the Scientific American entitled: X Rays from Supernova Remnants
(December 1975).
Bibliographical reference
The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cas-A Needlepoint Storyin PieceWork Magazine, July/August 2004.
- Whitman, John R.
The Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cas-A Needlepoint Story
in PieceWork Magazine, July/August 2004.
Creator
- From the Collection: Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia, 1900-1979 (Person)
Repository Details
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