#yerkes observatory

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Celebrate Women Astronomers Day with the Yerkes Observatory Records at SCRC! Check out the alt text for the names of the women in this photo from 1921, and learn more at Capturing the Stars.

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An astronomer at the 40-inch refractor telescope of Yerkes Observatory under the 90-foot dome

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Yerkes Observatory

Yerkes Observatory, astronomical observatory located at Williams Bay on Lake Geneva in southeastern Wisconsin, U.S. The Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago was named for its benefactor, transportation magnate Charles T. Yerkes, and was opened in 1897. It contains the largest refracting telescope (40 inches [1 metre]) in the world. The refractor has been used for solar and stellar spectroscopy, photographic parallaxes, and double-star observations, while other more modern telescopes at the site have been equipped for photoelectric, polarimetric, and spectroscopic applications.

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If you think Stanley birds are better than people Uris wouldn't get this pin you're simply wrong

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Otto Struve’s Journey from Struggle to Starfom

Otto Struve, a notable astronomer from a lineage of stargazers, faced a tumultuous early life. Born in 1897 in Kharkov, Ukraine, he survived World War I, only to fight in the Russian Civil War, ultimately finding himself a refugee in dire straits.  Struve’s journey to the United States was anything but random. Key figures like Paul Guthnick and Edwin B. Frost orchestrated his rescue. After Frost…

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Yerkes Observatory, Spiral “Black-eye” galaxy (M64, NGC 4826) in the constellation Coma Berenices, 05-1905.

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Orion Nebula photo 114 Years apart 🔭

The 1901 photo was taken by George Ritchey at Yerkes Observatory, using a 24 Inch (609mm) reflecting telescope.

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Does the gentleman with the mustache, just right of center look familiar?

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Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied that they were very good students.

In 1957, Lee Tsung-Dao and Yang Chen-Ning were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. The course taught by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar became the only course in history where all its attendees received a Nobel Prize.

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Double-Slide Plate Holder on the 40-inch Refractor Telescope Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin The Observatory was operated by the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics image credit: University of Chicago Library                          Special Collections Research Center

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Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle (1986) / The Augsburg Book of Miracles (Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch) (1545-1552 or thereabouts) / John Donne, "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star" (published posthumously in 1633) / Howl's Moving Castle (ハウルの動く城) (2004) / Morehouse's Comet, Photographed at Yerkes Observatory (1908) / Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (c.1592-3)

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Our new exhibit, "Capturing the Stars: The Untold History of Women at Yerkes Observatory," is being installed! It opens September 18th.

Can't wait? You can start brushing up on the history of hidden labor in astronomy at this year's Kathleen A. Zar Symposium, September 14-16.

The symposium will bring together astronomers, historians, librarians, archivists, and scholars of science and tech to present on hidden labor in astronomical research.

Image of Mary Ross Calvert, computer of Yerkes Observatory, operating the Kenwood 12-inch refractor telescope in 1926 from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, [apf6-01280], Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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Conjunction of Mars Uranus and Venus . Yerkes Observatory 08-01-1921

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George Ellery Hale was born on June 29, 1868. An American solar astronomer, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes; namely, the 40-inch refracting telescope at Yerkes Observatory, 60-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory.

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Worlds largest glass tree this year blue color . Last year it was green . This was at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay Wisconsin . Huge turnout.