Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Eyepiece measurements, 1877/1878 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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Sub-Series:
Telescopes
Item — Box 47Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1151
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...
Notes: Photographic Instruments, 1904/1924 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:
The HCO in the 20th c. and the Work of the Astronomical Computers
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Sub-Series:
Observations by Individual Astronomers
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File:
Edward S. King Notebooks
Item — Box 35Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0926
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...
Second Computation of Instrument Errors, 1867/1868 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:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
O1-29: Observations for Clock Errors
Item — Box 9Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0353
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....
Transit Instrument, 1860-01-23/1860-06-23 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:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
A1-74: Meridian Circle Observations
Item — Box 1Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0033
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....
Transit Instrument, 1860-06-23/1860-11-29 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
/
Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
A1-74: Meridian Circle Observations
Item — Box 1Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0034
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....