Comets.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
1859-60 Comet Seeker, 1859-12-01/1860-09-11 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:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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M1-32: Miscellaneous (Copies of Originals)
Item — Box 7Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0264
Scope and Contents:
Contains comet sketches, and newspaper clippings
[Comet Seeking], 1850-06-16/1853-05-01 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:
M1-32: Miscellaneous (Copies of Originals)
Item — Box 7Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0268
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....
[Comet Seeking], 1847-06-10/1850-06-05 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:
M1-32: Miscellaneous (Copies of Originals)
Item — Box 7Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0269
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....
[Comets and Double Stars], Volume 1, 1848-11-01/1849-02-01 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:
H1-8, 10-56, also Ha, Hb: Equatorial Observations and Reductions, excluding Zones
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0154
Scope and Contents:
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]
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
FOUND IN:
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...