One of the biggest contributions of Edward Pickering, who was the director of Harvard College Observatory for 42 years (1876-1918), is initiating a program to map the variability of objects in the night sky [1]. One of the main consequences of this program was to collect a huge number of…
Two pages full of star charts and drawings for your weekend. Both from the same Dorrit Hoffleit notebook from 1936.
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Join us and @ProjectPHaEDRA as we explore Williamina Fleming's foundational work by transcribing her notebooks (and the research of other women computers): https://s.si.edu/2ZqFYUb.
And learn more about her life and legacy: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/williamina-fleming
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