Boyden Station (Arequipa, Peru)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Founded in 1891 with a gift from Uriah A. Boyden this was HCO’s second permanent observatory to complement the one in Cambridge. Instruments included the 24” Bruce, 13” Boyden, 10” Metcalf, and 8” Bache. The station was closed and moved to South Africa to get better weather for observation year-round.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
12-inch Equatorial (Observations from Arequipa), 1917/1918 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
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File:
12-inch Equatorial
Item — Box 21Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0641
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...
202-8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel., 1917-1927
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
202: 8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel. - Bruce Tel.
Sub-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...
202: 8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel. - Bruce Tel.
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...
Arequipa Time Book No.1, 1891/1892 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
Item — Box 74Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1777
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...
Catalog of Chart Plates (B in Peru), 1882/1924 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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Sub-Series:
Williamina P. Fleming Notebooks
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File:
Catalog of Chart Plates
Item — Box 33Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0876
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...
Computations - Longitude and Latitude of Bolivian and Peruvian Stations, no. 2, 1894 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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File:
Miscellaneous
Item — Box 76Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1819
Scope and Contents:
After title pages, notebook is blank
CONCRETE PIER FOR 8-IN DRAPER MOUTNING AS ADPTED TO S LAT. 16° 22'. / SCALE: 1in. = 1ft / DEC. 1917, 1917 December
FOUND IN:
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory Blueprints from Oak Ridge Observatory
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Series:
202: 8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel. - Bruce Tel.
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Sub-Series:
202-8"-13"-33" Schmidt Tel.
Item — Box 1, Folder: 12Identifier: hsi, 00002
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Telescope: 8" Bache Voiglander Reworked by Clark, Observatory: Peru, Title: CONCRETE PIER FOR 8-IN DRAPER MOUTNING AS ADPTED TO S LAT. 16° 22'. / SCALE: 1in. = 1ft / DEC. 1917,
Daily Journal [13-inch - Peru], 1889/1890 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 24Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0699
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...
Double Stars; Planets (13-inch - Peru), 1894/1896 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 24Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0700
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...
Estimate of Work (Arequipa), 1911 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:
Leon Campbell Notebooks
Item — Box 28Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0773
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...
Journal (Arequipa), 1891/1894 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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File:
Administrative Reports, Journals, and Memoranda
Item — Box 15Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0514
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...
Latitude and Longitude, Arequipa station, 1896 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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File:
Miscellaneous
Item — Box 48Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1171
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...
Log Book - Arequipa Station of HCO, 1915 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:
Leon Campbell Notebooks
Item — Box 28Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0770
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...
Long Period Southern Variables, 1910 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
/
Sub-Series:
Observations by Individual Astronomers
/
File:
Leon Campbell Notebooks
Item — Box 28Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0774
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...
Long Period Southern Variables, 1904/1908 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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File:
Variable Star Observations
Item — Box 28Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0776
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...
Long Period Southern Variables, 1918 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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File:
Variable Star Observations
Item — Box 28Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0777
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...
Measures of Peruvian Pole Star plates, 1901 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:
Plate Measures
Item — Box 272Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2496
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...
Psychrometer comparisons at Arequipa and other Stations, 1896/1897 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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File:
Time Service, Clock Errors, and Other Instrument Readings
Item — Box 79Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra1877
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...
Variable Stars (Arequipa), 1895/1898 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:
Early Variable Star Work
Item — Box 16Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0535
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...
Visual observations (Peru), 1894-08-01/1896-07-01 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:
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:
Solon Irving Bailey Notebooks
Item — Box 262Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra2284
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...