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	Harvard College Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Harvard College Observatory (or HCO) is an institution managing a complex of buildings and multiple instruments used for astronomical research by the Department of Astronomy of Harvard.
		Between 1847 and 1852 pioneer photographer John Adams Whipple and astronomer William Cranch Bond, director of the Observatory, used Harvard's Great Refractor telescope to produce images of the moon that are remarkable in their clarity of detail and aesthetic power.
		This was the largest telescope in the world at that time, and their images of the moon took the prize for technical excellence in photography at the great 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvard_College_Observatory (203 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Harvard College Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harvard College Observatory, astronomical observatory originally founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1839 and reestablished from 1843 to 1847 by...
		Harvard University also maintains the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston; the Harvard College Observatory, based in Cambridge; the research center for...
		Bond was the first director of the Harvard College Observatory and a leader in early American...
	encarta.msn.com /Harvard_College_Observatory.html (212 words)

	Harvard College Observatory. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Harvard College Observatory, astronomical observatory located in Cambridge, Mass., operated by Harvard Univ. (Harvard Col. at the time of the observatory’s founding in 1839).
		Programs of the Harvard Observatory include various aspects of solar physics, stellar and nebular spectroscopy and photometry, and theoretical cosmology.
		In 1973 the research programs of the Harvard Col. Observatory were merged with those of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; the observatory itself, however, maintains its separate status under the control of Harvard.
	www.bartleby.com /69/22/H01622.html (154 words)

	Antonia Maury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maury was educated at Vassar College, graduating in 1887.
		She was employed at Harvard College Observatory (HCO), where she observed stellar spectra and published a catalogue of classifications in 1897 (Spectra of Bright Stars Photographed with the 11-inch Draper Telescope as part of the Henry Draper Memorial, Annals of Harvard College Observatory, vol.
		Edward Charles Pickering, Director of HCO at the time, disagreed with her system of classification and explanation of differing line widths, and she left HCO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antonia_Maury (218 words)

	Harvard College Observatory (HCO)
		The astronomical observatory of Harvard College at Cambridge, Massachusetts; it was founded in 1839.
		The Observatory carries out a broad program of research in astronomy and astrophysics and includes among its instruments the 0.38-meter (15-inch) "Great Refractor," installed in 1847, which for 20 years was the largest telescope in the United States.
		HCO is a partner in the Magellan Telescopes project and owns telescopes at Oak Ridge, Massachusetts, that are operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO).
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/H/HarvardCO.html (166 words)

	Scanning the Southern Skies
		While the founding of the Harvard College Observatory in 1839 is generally considered the beginning of the rise of astronomy at Harvard, the field's history extends back to Harvard's formative years.
		He has already given Harvard $3.2 million to supplement the budget of the Department of Mathematics and $2.4 million to establish a third dean's fund for research and recruitment in the sciences.
		Harvard's faculty, especially the junior faculty who have not yet achieved national prominence, need seed money for their research.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/03.20/ScanningtheSout.html (1992 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Harvard College Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Harvard College Observatory, astronomical observatory founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1839.
		Outside Cambridge, Harvard University maintains the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston; the Harvard College Observatory, based in Cambridge, but with...
		Many variable stars change their brightness because they pulsate, that is, expand and contract somewhat like a balloon.
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	Harvard Gazette: Observatory nights put stars in community's eyes
		Welcome to Observatory Nights, a community outreach program sponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) that is revved up after a yearlong hiatus, drawing packed houses month after month.
		The events, held on the third Thursday of each month, begin with a 45-minute lecture on a topic that is both of current interest in astronomy and that has relevance to a community audience.
		Though the recent incarnation of Observatory Nights comes after a yearlong layoff, Aguilar said the event has been a regular staple at the center for almost three decades.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/01.24/12-observatory.html (906 words)

	Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) is a "research institute" of the Smithsonian Institution headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it is joined with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
		More than 300 scientists at the CfA are engaged in a broad program of research in astronomy, astrophysics, earth and space sciences, and science education.
		The Chandra X-ray Observatory is managed and operated by SAO from Cambridge.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smithsonian_Astrophysical_Observatory (138 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Health / Science / Female astronomers connected the dots
		When Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers suggested that there might be ''innate" differences between women and men that affect their success in the sciences, it brought to mind an extraordinary story concerning women scientists at Harvard at the start of the 20th century.
		The observatory would take a half-million photographic plates in the decades to come, so one of Pickering's biggest challenges was to establish an industrial-scale system for analyzing them.
		In 1892, she graduated from Harvard University's Radcliffe College, and later went on to become a volunteer at Harvard College Observatory.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/02/01/female_astronomers_connected_the_dots (726 words)

	Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859) and George Phillips (1825-1865)
		In 1815, he was sent by Harvard College to Europe to visit existing observatories and gather data preliminary to the building of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO).
		His observations led him to reject the previously held theory that the rings of Saturn were solid, though his hypothesis of their being in a fluid state was in turn soon discarded.
		His memoir on Donati's Comet of 1858 in the Annals of the Harvard College Observatory, Vol.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/B/BondW.html (354 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.64 (1994)
		Harlow Shapley, the director of the observatory, was an energetic and enthusiastic man in his early forties who was a natural leader, and at this time was arguably at the peak of his long and distinguished career.
		The precipitating factor was the imminent transfer of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to the Harvard Observatory grounds.
		THE STEWARD OBSERVATORY YEARS (1966-70) In 1966, the Department of Astronomy (Steward Observatory) at the University of Arizona was still relatively small and very much in the shadow of the generously funded Kitt Peak National Observatory, just across the street, where development of the 150-inch telescope was in progress.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309049784/html/72.html (5640 words)

	Harvard classification system -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Harvard system is a predecessor of the generally accepted MK classification system.
		The Harvard University Library is both the oldest library in the United States and the largest academic library in the world.
		It was established when John Harvard, a young Puritan minister, left his collection of 260 volumes to the new Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., in 1638.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039418?tocId=9039418 (823 words)

	Harvard College Observatory on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		astronomical observatory located in Cambridge, Mass., operated by Harvard (Harvard College at the time of the observatory's founding in 1839).
		Defining new traditions: Harvard University Dining Services has worked hard to retain and enhance the school's most valued dining traditions.
		The Maria Mitchell observatory: Maria Mitchell and her eponymous observatory continue to stir young and old minds.(Echoes of the past: 90 years ago)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HarvardC1.asp (303 words)

	Edward C. Pickering Bibliography
		Pickering, Edward Charles, “Detection of New Nebulae by Photography,” Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 18, 6, 114-117 (1890).
		Pickering, Edward C., “The Spectrum of Zeta Puppis,” Ap.J. Pickering, Edward C., “Revised Harvard Photometry : A Catalogue of the Positions, Photometric Magnitudes and Spectra of 9110 Stars, Mainly of the Magnitude 6.50, and Brighter Observed with the 2 and 4 inch Meridian Photometers,” Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 50 (1908).
		= +90°,” Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 101 (1918).
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /BruceMedalists/Pickering/PickeringRefs.html (918 words)

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		The same year Chandler renewed his association with the Harvard College Observatory, and in 1881 moved into a brand new house in Cambridge, within a short walking distance of the observatory.
		Observatories continued to track the motion of the pole without interruption even during the two world wars, but this activity was considered an operational requirement for treating geodetic and astrometric measurements, with little scientific importance or excitement.
		C On the observations of variable stars with the meridian-photometer of the Harvard College Observatory.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309052378&chap=45-80 (948 words)

	SJSU Virtual Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1895 she accepted a position as a research assistant at Harvard College Observatory.
		During her time at Harvard, she worked with Annie Jump Cannon to measure the visual magnitudes of stars.
		Leavitt's main research interest was photographic photometry, the problem of determining the brightness or magnitude of a star from a photographic image.
	www2.sjsu.edu /depts/Museum/lea.html (140 words)

	The Astrophysics Spectator: Commentary, Observing with the Great Refractor
		After one open house, when the visitors had left and we had put the portable telescopes away, I was passing the time with two other graduate students, Carol and Jurgen, in the dome of the Great Refractor.
		Observatories are dangerous machines, and several astronomers have been injured or killed by them; I was hoping this was not one of those occasions.
		From that time on while I was at Harvard, we opened the dome and let visitor observe with the Great Refractor during the public open nights.
	www.astrophysicsspectator.com /commentary/commentary20050406.html (1048 words)

	Harvard College
		Harvard University Homepage: an overview of academic programs, campus life, resources, news and events, with extensive links to other web sites located throughout the University.
		College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Division of Continuing Educa...
		Harvard memorial poems, by Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Lowell, and SF Smith.
	www.futuregate.co.uk /harvard_college.html (245 words)

	HARVARD COLLEGE
		Harvard College in the United States, endowed by the Rev. John Harvard in 1639.
		Memorials of William Cranch Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1840-1859, and of his son, George Phillips Bond, director of the Harvard College Observatory, 1859-1965 (reference)
		Shakspere [Sic]: An Address Delivered on April 23, 1916 in Sanders Theatre at the Request of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/english/HA/HARVARD+COLLEGE.html (483 words)

	The Bonds: Pioneers of American Astronomy
		The telescope chosen was to be a twin of the 15" Merz and Mahler refractor at the Polkova Observatory, Russia.
		One of the observers at the Harvard College Observatory who contributed to the study of Saturn during this time was Phillip Sidney Coolidge, whose father was friends with the Bonds.
		Back at the observatory in Cambridge, George Phillips Bond, despite the fact that funding for the observatory was scare, felt honor bound to keep the work at the same level it had been before the war, and so worked very long and hard, even with his declining health.
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	Harvard College Observatory (from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Harvard College Observatory was founded in 1839 by the Harvard Corporation at a time when few such facilities existed in the United States.
		More results on "Harvard College Observatory (from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)" when you join.
		The CfA was created in 1973 by reorganizing the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under one director.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-93522?tocId=93522 (892 words)

	Research Matters: Harvard College Observatory (HCO)
		A division of the Center for Astrophysics, the Harvard College Observatory supports the Department of Astronomy with research facilities, a model shop, and the telescope called "The Great Refractor."
		Harvard science historian publishes results of unprecedented 30-year census of Copernican masterpiece (Center for Astrophysics, 10/27/2002)
		From cradle to grave (Chandra X-Ray Observatory, 10/3/2002)
	www.researchmatters.harvard.edu /program.php?program_id=1289 (207 words)

	SLU Physics - The Concept of Women's Work in Astronomy
		In 1875, three women were hired to work at the Harvard College Observatory.
		Between 1875 and 1927, 72 women were hired to work at the Harvard Observatory, where they concentrated in particular on stellar classification for the Draper catalogue — including the development of a classification system.
		Edward Pickering, the 4th director of the Observatory, began hiring women because he could pay them less and they were willing to do meticulous work with greater precision than men could.
	it.stlawu.edu /~physics/stuff/student_projects/2002/mccabe.shtml (258 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.60 (1991)
		As director of the Harvard College Observatory from 1952 to 1966, he established one of the first university programs for research and instruction in radioastronomy and space astronomy.
		COLLEGE DAYS AND A CHANGE OF PLAN In 1916 Donald's family moved to Denver, where he graduated from high school in 1917 and enrolled in the University.
		DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD COLLEGE OBSERVATORY, LATER YEARS In 1952, upon the retirement of Harlow Shapley, Don was appointed acting director of Harvard College Observatory and was chosen to be its permanent director two years later.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/0309044421/html/148.html (4583 words)

	Harvard college - Harvard Summer School: Secondary School Program: College Preparation
		Harvard College, as far as it educated at all, was a mild and liberal school,
		Radcliffe College merged with Harvard University on October 1, 1999 thereby forming the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
		This database is copyright 1994 the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
	www.infoant.com /?q=harvard-college (190 words)

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