The Harvard College Observatory (HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the... 6 KB (632 words) - 01:30, 2 March 2024 |
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (category Harvard Computers) halted because of her death. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic... 29 KB (2,989 words) - 18:10, 15 April 2024 |
Williamina Fleming (category Harvard Computers) astronomer. She was a single mother hired by the director of the Harvard College Observatory to help in the photographic classification of stellar spectra... 20 KB (2,017 words) - 21:54, 25 March 2024 |
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (category Harvard College Observatory people) After being introduced to Harlow Shapley, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, where he had just established a graduate program in astronomy... 40 KB (4,017 words) - 22:39, 15 April 2024 |
Shapley moved with her husband to the Mount Wilson Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, and from 1915 through 1927 she continued to publish... 6 KB (728 words) - 18:18, 20 March 2024 |
Annie Jump Cannon (category Whitin Observatory) gave Cannon access to the Harvard College Observatory. In 1896, Edward C. Pickering hired her as his assistant at the Observatory. In 1907, Cannon finished... 35 KB (3,452 words) - 20:31, 31 March 2024 |
Harlow Shapley (category Harvard College Observatory people) 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal... 32 KB (3,244 words) - 18:25, 1 April 2024 |
This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small... 426 KB (101 words) - 20:49, 19 April 2024 |
Antonia Maury (category Harvard Computers) Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and human computers at the Harvard College Observatory. Antonia Maury was awarded... 23 KB (2,439 words) - 15:31, 26 December 2023 |
Stellar classification (redirect from Harvard Spectral Sequence) Gifford (1971). The Harvard College Observatory: The first four directorships, 1839-1919 (1st ed.). Cambridge: M.A. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press... 103 KB (11,333 words) - 00:13, 12 April 2024 |
The Oak Ridge Observatory (ORO, code: 801), also known as the George R. Agassiz Station, is located at 42 Pinnacle Road, Harvard, Massachusetts. It was... 8 KB (425 words) - 01:40, 1 August 2023 |
Edward Pickering began to supervise photographic spectroscopy at Harvard College Observatory, using the objective prism method. In 1886, Draper's widow, Mary... 15 KB (1,818 words) - 12:50, 7 October 2023 |
telescope assistants. The Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory was founded in 1889 by Harvard University at Mount Harvard near Lima, Peru. It was relocated to... 18 KB (1,588 words) - 18:08, 4 January 2024 |
Fred Lawrence Whipple (category Harvard College Observatory people) August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid... 12 KB (1,026 words) - 05:20, 4 April 2024 |
kappa mechanism. Leavitt, a graduate of Radcliffe College, worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a "computer", tasked with examining photographic... 20 KB (2,319 words) - 18:00, 15 April 2024 |
Samuel Langley (category Harvard College Observatory people) School of Boston, after which he became an assistant in the Harvard College Observatory. He then moved to a job at the United States Naval Academy, ostensibly... 24 KB (2,782 words) - 04:30, 12 April 2024 |
William Cranch Bond (category Harvard College Observatory people) 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine (near Portland)... 6 KB (591 words) - 15:01, 29 September 2023 |
Gerard Kuiper (category Harvard College Observatory people) under Robert Grant Aitken at the Lick Observatory. In 1935 he left to work at the Harvard College Observatory, where he met Sarah Parker Fuller (1913-2000)... 12 KB (1,146 words) - 20:47, 20 April 2024 |
Edward Charles Pickering (category Harvard University alumni) Harvard College Observatory known and respected around the world, and it continues today to be a well-respected observatory and program. The Harvard College... 28 KB (2,849 words) - 15:40, 11 March 2024 |
245H Page 250". Retrieved September 8, 2019. "Harvard College Observatory: Great Refractor". www.cfa.harvard.edu. Retrieved September 8, 2019. "Fitz/Clark... 17 KB (346 words) - 23:36, 8 October 2023 |
DeLisle Stewart (category Harvard College Observatory people) 1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he... 2 KB (118 words) - 20:10, 14 April 2023 |
Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The telescope was surpassed by the Harvard College Observatory, 60 in (152 cm) reflector less than ten years later, although... 65 KB (5,858 words) - 13:22, 31 March 2024 |