#williamina fleming

[the-maddest-robot]

Photo of Pickering's triangle (also known as Fleming's triangle) and NGC 6979 / NGC 6974 (the more diffused clouds at the top center/left). This is the third part of the Cygnus loop / veil nebula, this part of the supernova remnant is fainter than the previous two parts of the loop I photographed. This explains in part why it was only discovered by in 1904 by Williamina Fleming (whereas the two writer part were discovered in 1784 by William Herschel). Williamina Fleming was a pioneer in stellar classification, she worked with other women at the Harvard college observatory. Their work in star classification resulted in the Henry Draper Catalogue, an extensive (225 300 stars in the first edition) classification of stars with their position and their spectra. Williamina is also credited with the discovery of 59 nebula (including the famous hors head nebula) more than 300 variable stars as well as (with Henry Norris Russell and Edward Charles Pickering) the discovery of white dwarfs (the remnants of dead sun-like stars).

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En la década de 1880, el director del Observatorio de Harvard estaba frustrado con su personal y decía: "¡Mi doncella escocesa podría hacerlo mejor!". Entonces contrató a su empleada doméstica escocesa, Williamina Fleming, quien descubrió decenas de miles de estrellas y más. 💫

Te contamos la increíble historia de una de las mejores astrónomas de todos los tiempos 🔭👇🏻

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[empress-hancock]

A woman created wifi

A woman was the first computer programmer

A woman discovered x-rays

A woman discovered the double helix shape of DNA

A woman wrote the first novel

A woman proposed that ancient statues of females were goddess idols and not sex toys

Women discovered the method we use to determine the distance of a star, developed the classification of stars we use today, and discovered that stars are predominantly hydrogen and not heavy metals

men be like "if women are really that intelligent, why are all major discoveries made by men? 🤓" as if they didn’t quite literally burn women alive if they were smart back in the day

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[apod]

2023 November 21

Fleming's Triangular Wisp Image Credit & Copyright: Cristiano Gualco

Explanation: These chaotic and tangled filaments of shocked, glowing gas are spread across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation of Cygnus as part of the Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, an expanding cloud born of the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the original supernova explosion likely reached Earth over 5,000 years ago. The glowing filaments are really more like long ripples in a sheet seen almost edge on, remarkably well separated into the glow of ionized hydrogen atoms shown in red and oxygen in blue hues. Also known as the Cygnus Loop and cataloged as NGC 6979, the Veil Nebula now spans about 6 times the diameter of the full Moon. The length of the wisp corresponds to about 30 light years, given its estimated distance of 2,400 light years. Often identified as Pickering's Triangle for a director of Harvard College Observatory, it is perhaps better named for its discoverer, astronomer Williamina Fleming, as Fleming's Triangular Wisp.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231121.html

[scotianostra]

Born on May 15th 1857 in Dundee, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming became one of the leading lights in astronomy.

Her father had died when she was seven; at 14, she had become a student teacher to help support her mother and siblings.

At 20, she had married a Dundee bank employee and widower, James Orr Fleming, 16 years her senior—who would abandon her and their unborn child shortly after her arrival in the United States a year later.

Willamina worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering, who was director of the Harvard College Observatory. The story was told that Pickering was often frustrated with the performance of the (all-male) “computers” at the observatory and, reportedly, would complain loudly: “My Scottish maid could do better!” And so it was she went to work for him at Harvard.

Fleming became a full time employee at the observatory in 1881 despite a lack of any math, astronomy, or physics background. She eventually became the first woman to be designated Curator of Astronomical Photographs in 1899. This was the first corporate appointment of a woman at Harvard ever.

Fleming contributed to the cataloging of stars that later were published as the Henry Draper Catalogue. In nine years’ effort she cataloged more than 10,000 stars. During her career she discovered 59 gaseous nebulae, over 310 variable stars, and 10 novae. In 1907 she published a list of 222 variable stars she had discovered.

In 1888, Fleming she made her most well known discovery, the Horsehead Nebula.

The second phot is a depiction of the lady by Greg Moodie, artist and writer, you can see his work in the Scottish newspaper The National, there is a gallery of his work at the Torphichen Inn, West Lothian, where I took the photo.

Read more about her in this Harvard Magazine article here. http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/01/williamina-fleming

[johnlyngfr]

Thé Horsehead Nebula appears as a dark silhouette in the vast Orion Molecular Cloud Complex behind it. It is too faint to see without a telescope. It was first identified by the Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming in 1888. The deep red colour is caused by the ionized hydrogen that dominates this area. It is about 1,400 light-years away. This image is a composite of 54 photos, where each is a 3 minute exposure. I used an special filter to highlight the ionized hydrogen. I captured this image from my balcony in Strasbourg France in early February 2023. #horseheadnebula #barnard33 #ngc2023 #orionmolecularcloudcomplex #orionbelt #astronomy #astrophotography #astronomiefrance #astropgotographie (at Strasbourg, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coh7ppvstFv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Williamina P. Fleming, photographic portrait, ca. 1890,  in A Field for Woman’s Work in Astronomy, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics   “Fleming became a revered astronomer was down to chance, opportunity and talent. Around 1875, the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) began admitting women as staff.”

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Harvard Photographic plates

One of the most interesting things that we went over in class was the Harvard photographic plates. I find it so interesting how many there are in their collection, and how advanced their technology was at the time. Harvard has accumulated over 550,000 classifications from the northern and southern hemispheres since the 1880s. They are in such undamaged shape that astronomers are still using those plates. But one of the most interesting things was how these plates helped lead to females being more involved in the discoveries in space. Before, it was mostly something men would study, but they did not want to analyze the findings. Consequently, women assumed the responsibility. This all started when Edward Pickering hired a male assistant to help document the stars. But he was completing an extraordinarily small amount of the work he was tasked with. Thus, Pickering, with his lack of work, gets done. He would then hire his female housekeeper, Williamina Flemming.   The whole point of looking over the plates was to catalog the brightness and size of the star. There was a mission to map every single star that was able to be captured. This was something very time-consuming, so it was highly undesirable to do. However, by undertaking the task, women made many discoveries in mapping the brightness and size of every single star that could be captured. But they also discovered new ways to study the stars. One of the most accomplished and talented women was Annie Cannon, who classified more than 350,000 spectra of the Harvard plates. Fleming would help classify over 10,000 stars, nebulae, and the existence of white dwarfs. Later, they published a catalog that included the ordering of stars based on their size and brightness. This was called the Harvard classification system. In conclusion, the Harvard photographic plates are not only something that mapped out the stars, but it led women to enter a field mostly dominated by men and helped change the way we document the stars. 

Sources: Annie Jump Cannon Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline (thefamouspeople.com)

How Female computers mapped the universe and brought America to the Moon, By Natalie Zarrelli March 4th, 2016

How Hardvard's vast collection of glass plates still shapes Astronomy, By Meghan Bartles February 1, 2017

[aduckmentalistin]

Las Computadoras de Harvard

Las contadoras de estrellas en el Observatorio de Harvard a finales del siglo XIX fueron claves para la astronomía moderna. Ayudaron a crear el Catálogo Estelar Henry Draper, colaboraron en la identificación de la composición de las estrellas, las dividieron en categorías y encontraron una manera de medir distancias en el espacio por la luz que emiten.

Sus carreras son un ejemplo perfecto de cómo la mujer fue entrando en el mercado laboral y más concretamente en el sector científico. Es cierto que todas ellas eran blancas y venían de familia de clase acomodada (según Sobel solo una de ellas podría ser considerada abiertamente feminista), pero seguían existiendo curiosidades como la de Williamina Fleming. Ella fue la primera jefa del grupo de ‘calculadoras’ y eso que nunca había estudiado nada relacionado con la astronomía. “Flemming consiguió su puesto en el laboratorio después de trabajar como criada para Pickering. Él sabía de su valía y decidió darle una oportunidad y bueno, la aprovechó”.

Si bien algunas de las mujeres del personal de Pickering estaban graduadas en astronomía, su salario era similar al de un trabajador masculino sin oficio. Ganaban aproximadamente entre 25 y 50 centavos la hora, más que una mujer trabajando en una fábrica, pero menos que una oficinista. En concreto, Fleming, como madre soltera que era, abordó el tema de sus bajos salarios con Pickering:

"Me dice que recibo un excelente salario como el de las mujeres... ¿Alguna vez pensó que tengo un hogar que mantener y una familia que cuidar tan bien como los hombres?... ¡Y esto se considera una era ilustrada!"

Harvard hizo dinero con su fuerza laboral femenina si se considera que los sistemas de clasificación que desarrollaron llevaron a la identificación de casi 400,000 estrellas. Williamina Fleming fue la primera en descubrir enanas blancas y la Nebulosa Cabeza de Caballo en la constelación de Orión, además de otras 51 nebulosas, 10 novas y 310 estrellas variables.

Las Computadoras de Harvard fueron:

Mary Anna Palmer Draper, Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Anna Winlock, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Leavitt y Florence Cushman.

Fuentes: Carmen Ibarlucea, Wikipedia, Open Culture.

[therandomwhispers]

In the 1880s, the Harvard Observatory director Professor Edward Charles Pickering was frustrated with his staff, and would say "My Scottish maid could do better!" So, he hired his Scottish maid. Williamina Fleming, who discovered tens of thousands of stars and more.

[drachinvonterra]

English video description (la déscription en Français ci-dessous):

The Episode « INFINITY » of ‘SHAMANE SHE - the Ladies of the Lake » by Drachin von Terra takes us into the Universe, and more precisely into the constellation of Orion in our Galaxy where we find the Horsehead Nebula discovered in 1888 by the Astronomer Williamina Fleming.

Moving with ease through the time warps of Space, the Shamane She and the Ladies of the Lake cross the seasons and different epochs of our planet. Are we truly on planet Earth ? If so, are we 10 million years from here and now?

A science-fiction film in episodes by Drachin von Terra who is : the Shamane She, Director, Editor, main camera, special effects, graphics, costume designer and clicker communicator with the wild cat, Silver Sphinx.

Original Music composed and orchestrated by Zed Terra

(Copyright Viviane Clarac aka zed terra all rights reserved).

‘Solstice’, 2019 ISRC: FR-9W1-19-15356

‘Ocean Meditation’, 2023 ISRC : FR-9W1-23-66893

‘La Grotte’, 2024 ISRC: FR-9W1-24-28291

‘All Gone’, 2024 ISRC : FR-9W1-24-13423

With

The Ladies of the Lake, Commedia Donne del’Arte, Dancer :

Drachin von Terra

Jess Nightingale

Patricia Douce

Manon Grange-Peterle

Artist

Micheline Reboulleau

‘Frimousse’ 2016

Technique mixte sur bois

75 x 75 cm

2 chalk drawings of isadorian dancers by Micheline Reboulleau are presented in the credits.

Feline

Silver Sphinx

Fairy

Nicole Clarac-Lagès

Camera

Drachin von Terra

Didier Duval

Nadine Ferry

Zed Terra

Sincere thanks to :

Dominique Mitaine et Jaqueline Tupinier for their precious help in making the costumes for the Ladies of the Lake, and Zed for the catering and material organisation,

Laurence Crotet-Beudet et à Rachel Nectoux for their support in helping me explore editing possibilities for the final project,

Many thanks to the Mairie de Fontaine-lès-Dijon and to the Mairie de Poiseul la Grange in Burgundy for their support and for having authorized the filming sets for “Shamane She,”

A special thanks to ESO, ESA, et NASA for sharing their fabulous images and videos of the Universe:

- The photograph of the Horsehead Nebula taken by the space telescope Euclid :

Finding_a_planet_in_Euclid_s_view_of_the_Horsehead_Nebula

Copyright: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

Disclaimer :

In the episode « INFINITY » of ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac’, the above image was modified to create some 3D animations. The authors of the image have no legal responsibility concerning the content of this creative work.

Image modifications created by Drachin von Terra are as follows : zooms and panoramic movements, creation and animation of graphic layers taken from the original image, color modification, lighting, changes in gain, and application of a lens effect.

la constellation Orion de notre Galaxie, la Voie Lacté.

Orion Head to Toe, photo de Rogelio Bernal Andreo, 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Head_to_Toe.jpg

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

Disclaimer :

In the episode « INFINITY » of ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac’, the above image was modified to create some 3D animations. The authors of the image have no legal responsibility concerning the content of this creative work.

Image modifications created by Drachin von Terra are as follows : zooms, rotation and panning movements, addition of animated graphic layers and of a lens effect.

https://youtu.be/rTLCDsQ37eY find the video ‘UNIVERS’ de Drachin von Terra here.

The ESO video :

A 3D panning (artists expression) on the Orion Nebula

ESO/M. Kornmesser

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Disclaimer :

In the episode « INFINITY » of ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac’, the above image was modified to create some 3D animations. The authors of the image have no legal responsibility concerning the content of this creative work.

Modifications of the original video by Drachin von Terra are variations in speed and the superposition of videos.

SHAMANE SHE LES DAMES DU LAC – EPISODE – INFINITY – DRACHIN VON TERRA – ISRC : FR-1A9-24-02318

Doris Büger aka Drachin von Terra 2024 tous droits réservés

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L’Episode « INFINITY » de SHAMANE SHE, LES DAMES DU LAC de Drachin von Terra nous amène dans l’Univers, et plus précisément dans la constellation Orion de notre Galaxie ou se trouve la Nébuleuse de la Tête de Cheval qui fut découverte en 1888 par l’Astronome Williamina Fleming.

La Shamane She et les Dames du Lac traversent les saisons et les époques avec l’aise du temps élastique de l’espace. Sommes-nous réellement sur la planète Terre? Et si oui, sommes-nous à 10 millions d’années d’ici et de maintenant?

Un Film de Science-Fiction en Episodes de Drachin von Terra qui est : la Shamane She, la réalisatrice, la monteuse, chef opératrice, créatrice des effets graphiques, costumière, et ‘clicker’ communicatrice avec la féline sauvage, Silver Sphinx.

Musique Originale Composée et Orchestrée par Zed Terra (copyright Viviane Clarac aka Zed Terra all rights reserved)

‘Solstice’, 2019 ISRC: FR-9W1-19-15356

‘Ocean Meditation’, 2023 ISRC : FR-9W1-23-66893

‘La Grotte’, 2024 ISRC: FR-9W1-24-28291

‘All Gone’, 2024 ISRC : FR-9W1-24-13423

Les Dames du Lac, Commedia Donne, Danseuses :

Drachin von Terra

Jess Nightingale

Patricia Douce

Manon Grange-Peterle

Artiste Peintre Micheline Reboulleau ‘Frimousse’ 2016 Technique Mixte sur Bois 75 x 75 cm

Deux dessins au fusain des danseuses isadoriennes par Micheline Reboulleau sont présentés au générique.

Féline Sauvage Silver Sphinx

Fée Nicole Clarac-Lagès

Caméra Drachin von Terra Didier Duval Nadine Ferry Zed Terra

Grand Merci à Dominique Mitaine et Jaqueline Tupinier pour leur aide précieuse à coudre les costumes des Dames du Lac, et Zed pour la régie générale, Laurence Crotet-Beudet et à Rachel Nectoux pour leur solidarité et pour m’avoir aidé à trouver des possibilités de montage pour mon projet final.

Merci à la Mairie de Fontaine-lès-Dijon et à la Mairie de Poiseul la Grange pour leur solidarité et les autorisations de tournage.

Grand merci à

ESO, ESA, et NASA pour le partage de leurs images et vidéos fabuleux de l’Univers :

- La Nébuleuse de la Tête de Cheval prise en photo par le télescope spatiale Euclid. Finding_a_planet_in_Euclid_s_view_of_the_Horsehead_Nebula Copyright: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

Disclaimer : Dans l’épisode, INFINITY de ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac, l’image ci-dessus à été modifié pour créer des animations à effet 3D, sans que les auteurs de l’image s’engagent à prendre une responsabilité juridique concernant le contenue de l’œuvre.

Des modifications apportées à l’image par Drachin von Terra sont des zooms et des panoramiques, la création de calques graphiques à partir de l’image originale et l’animation de ces calques, la modification des couleurs, de l’éclairage, et du gain de la photo originale, ainsi que l’ajout d’un effet d’objectif.

- La Constellation Orion de notre Galaxie, la Voie Lacté : Orion Head to Toe, photo de Rogelio Bernal Andreo, 2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Head_to_Toe.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/

Disclaimer : L’image ci-dessus à été modifié pour créer des animations dans l’épisode, ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac – épisode – INFINITY, sans que l’auteur de l’image s’engagent à prendre une responsabilité juridique concernant le contenue de l’œuvre.

Des modifications apportées à l’image par Drachin von Terra sont des zooms et des panoramiques, l’ ajout de calques graphiques animés par-dessus l’image originale, superpositions de vidéo sur l’image animé par zooms et panoramiques, modification de l’éclairage, ainsi que l’ajout d’un effet d’objectif. https://youtu.be/rTLCDsQ37eY trouvez ci-dessus le lien vers la vidéo ‘UNIVERS’ de Drachin von Terra

- La Nébuleuse d’Orion (vue d’artiste) en animation 3D : A 3D panning (artists expression) on the Orion Nebula ESO/M. Kornmesser Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license,

Disclaimer : La video ci-dessus à été modifié dans l’épisode INFINITY de ‘Shamane She, Les Dames du Lac, sans que l’auteur de l’image s’engagent à prendre une responsabilité juridique concernant le contenue de l’œuvre. Les modifications apportées à la vidéo par Drachin von Terra sont des variations de vitesse ainsi que des superpositions de vidéos.

SHAMANE SHE LES DAMES DU LAC – EPISODE – INFINITY – DRACHIN VON TERRA – ISRC : FR-1A9-24-02318 Doris Büger aka Drachin von Terra 2024 tous droits réservés

[links-studies]

Hi! Hope you're having a great day! List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers <3

Hi!!! Apologies- this is yet another ask I am getting to incredibly late 😔 Stuff happened. Thank you so much for sending this in though, and I hope you're having a wonderful day too!

Here's my list:

My wonderful little kitty cat, Mina! I named her after the astronomer Williamina Fleming :> She is very annoying and refuses to leave me alone- I wouldn't have it any other way.

Perhaps a random addition, but angel food cake! ... Which I'm just now learning is apparently specific to the United States? If my followers from other lovely parts of the world could let me know if you've ever had angel food cake, I'd be incredibly grateful. And if you haven't, try it! It's definitely on the sweeter side but it's still quite a light and airy desert, being a sponge cake and all. It's on my mind since I just had some for dessert this past Sunday as part of a "going away" dinner for my PhD program (❁´◡`❁)

Scented candles! I had been having trouble regaining my productivity after graduating earlier this summer, and recently I went back to revisit some of my strategies that I've used in the past to see if they'd help. One of these was to light some specific scented candles I have whenever I wanted to get work done. Totally worked, and I'm a bit ashamed a didn't think of it earlier! It's much easier to relax and get work done when everything smells so nice （￣︶￣） So it's been on my mind how nice it is to live in a world with easily accessed scented candles and how happy they make me.

The people in my life. I know this is non-specific, but I have a lot of people that I'm grateful for and that make me happy! I love my family, I have good friends, and my fellow students and incoming cohort at the PhD program I'm heading into are really nice. It's lovely to be surrounded by such a talented and supportive group of people. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in what we feel like we don't have that we lose sight of all of the good people we do have in our life. No matter what, there's always somebody that cares that you're around- even if it doesn't feel like it.

I suppose now's a good time to reveal that I started using that StudyVerse service I've been seeing around in some studyblr spaces earlier this month, and although I wasn't... enthused to say the least by the generative AI features, the site itself is really great! It's been wonderful using it. The idea of "losing my streak" and having the accountability of other students has DEFINITELY kept me motivated to study every day, even if it's only for a little bit. It's a much healthier way to approach things than what I was doing! The fact that even just an under 10 minute session counts towards your streak is really reassuring- it's like a nice little reminder that life is a marathon, not a sprint. 20 days in and I haven't missed a day so far, it's definitely made me happy! And it's so fun seeing how all these different people from all over the world set up their study spaces (o゜▽゜)o☆

[valkyries-things]

WILLIAMINA FLEMING // ASTRONOMER

“She was an astronomer active in the US. After her boss, the director of Harvard Observatory, got frustrated with his staff, he hired her. She ran a team for decades and during her career, she helped develop a common designation system for stars and catalogued thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena. She also discovered white dwarfs and Horsehead Nebula.”

[cosmiclenschronicles]

Hello guys!

Last class on 01/24, I learned something very interesting! My professor showed some old astrophotography images that were taken by Harvard University. But a very interesting story followed with this image. Now, I don't actually have the physical copies of the photo that was passed around during class, I apologize. But I tried my best to find an image that was similar to what I saw.

Now back to the story! Apparently, a professor at Harvard University told a graduate student to count every star in this image. It took a long time to do, as it was a very exhausting tedious job. So the professor lashed out at the graduate student and said "MY MAID COULD DO BETTER THAN YOU." So then he actually had his maid do the job for him. The maid's name is Williamina Fleming, and she actually was able to count the stars and discover that stars change colors due to their alternating temperatures. Cecilia Payne, a pioneering astronomer known for her groundbreaking work on the composition of stars, discovered that stars are mostly made out of hydrogen and helium.

I hope you enjoyed today's post and acknowledge that what I just wrote was the best recollection of my memory from class. If you want more of an accurate story and facts you can check out these links about Williamina Flemming as well as Cecilia Payne! These links essentially discusses the amazing discoveries that Williamina Flemming made such as her "discovering 10 novae, 300 variable stars, as well as 59 gaseous nebulae". (PBS) As well as Cecilia Payne's accomplishments in her career such as how "Payne showed how to decode the complicated spectra of starlight in order to learn the relative amounts of chemical elements in the stars" (American Museum of Natural History).

Hope to see you guys soon!