See also http://planet4589.org/jcm/pics/14/hco/index.html for pictures of the Great Refractor.
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| b40276_j.jpg Cover jacket for a 1909 plate with annotations by Wilhelmina Fleming (W.P.F.) and Annie Cannon (A.J.C.) | b40276_p.jpg 1909 plate of Antlia-Vela region with prism spectra - maybe used for HD? These two images courtesy of A. Doane. | ||
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| DSC_0001.JPG Alison Doane, Curator of Astronomical Photographs at Harvard, removes a plate from its jacket | DSC_0002.JPG Demo plate with reference spectra | DSC_0003.JPG Closeup of spectral plate - each smudge is the dispersed spectrum of a star | DSC_0004.JPG Plate jacket, 1907, with notes by W Fleming |
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| DSC_0005.JPG Plate of spectra and its jacket | DSC_0006.JPG Looking at the spectra through the loupe | DSC_0007.JPG | |
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| DSC_0013.JPG Alison holds a plate | DSC_0015.JPG | DSC_0016.JPG | |
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| DSC_0017.JPG Older, wooden-base light table - date unknown | DSC_0018.JPG The plate stacks | DSC_0019.JPG The Plate stacks | DSC_0020.JPG Plate collection currently being scanned |
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| DSC_0021.JPG Alison with plates in the stacks | DSC_0022.JPG Old box for lantern slides | DSC_0023.JPG Card catalog | DSC_0024.JPG Logbooks of Henrietta Swan Leavitt ("HSL") |
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| DSC_0025.JPG Index to logbooks - a good finding list of historic women in astro! | DSC_0026.JPG Preparing plates for scanning | DSC_0027.JPG | DSC_0028.JPG Plate scanning machine |
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| DSC_0029.JPG Plate scanning machine | DSC_0030.JPG Plate scanning machine | DSC_0031.JPG Leavitt logbook no. 35 | DSC_0032.JPG |
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| DSC_0033.JPG | DSC_0034.JPG Pages from Leavitt logbook 35 | DSC_0035.JPG (we picked up this book pretty much at random!) | DSC_0036.JPG |
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