From our beta test for the new phase of Star Notes on Zooniverse, a volunteer identified this sky map from William Pickering's "Eclipse notebook" containing information for viewing the 1888 & 1900 total solar eclipses.
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A comparison star map with the star S Herculis labeled, from Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich's notebook titled "Color Indices of Long Period Variables" from 1926.
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Our "Star Notes" project on Zooniverse has almost completed its first phase; volunteers search for photographic plate numbers in the logbooks of early Harvard astronomers (many of them women!). Help us complete the first phase: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/projectphaedra/star-notes

A positive print of a glass plate with labeled stars from Emily Hughes Boyce's notebook titled "MC Variable Fields surveyed for variables" from 1950.
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check out @_GlassStars_ for more astronomical photographic plates!

Tue, May 10 @ 2PM ET: Our final book club meeting of the spring! We will be discussing Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt and focusing on Chapter 9: Planetary Pull! Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsd-ispz8rE90g_G48aO5vwWfd7Bp6TVgN