Telescope -- 60-Inch Rockefeller
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: This is a reflector telescope. It is also known as the Common Telescope or 60” Telescope. The 60” Rockefeller telescope was used at Boyden Station in Bloemfontein from approximately 1933-1995. The mirror for the 60” Rockefeller came from the Common Telescope which the HCO purchased in 1904 and used in Cambridge from roughly 1921 to 1927. The Common Telescope was overhauled by J. W. Fecker, Inc. in 1927 for use in Bloemfontein and included electrical control system created by Willard P. Gerrish. The observatory was designed by John R. Nichols and Lewis J. Johnson. The plate series for the Common Telescope is S and for the Rockefeller SB.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
60" Rockefeller, 1929-1934
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
220: Observers Platform, 1930
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
221: 60” Turret, 1929-1933
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
Series Identifier: hsi, 00002
Scope and Contents:
The Oak Ridge Observatory Blueprints documents the instrumentation used and studied by staff at the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). Comprised mostly of technical drawings of the observatory buildings, telescopes, and other astronomical instrumentation used at various HCO Observatories it also has some notes, sketches, and other related material. The collection includes some plans from other observatories. The collection spans from 1892 to 1988 with the bulk of the collection from the...
Tests on 60-inch telescope, 1924/1926 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:
Variable Stars, Meridian Circle Work, and The Beginning of the Pickering Administration
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Sub-Series:
Telescopes
Item — Box 271Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2487
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...