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Project PHaEDRA Introduction at Natural History Society of Maryland

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Join us for an introduction to the research questions and the history behind Project PHaEDRA, hosted by the Natural History Society of Maryland for their "Must Learn Thursdays"! Zoom link here.

Rhiannon Rainey

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Rhiannon Rainey is the Community Coordinator for Project PHaEDRA. She assists volunteers and transcribes notebooks for the project, as well as handling the monthly newsletter. She started at Wolbach Library, working on their deduplication project before...

For Teachers

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The Smithsonian Learning Lab aims to support deep, meaningful learning with an online universe of authentic resources and tools for making them your own. Project PHaEDRA staff have compiled collections of content on the SI Learning Lab to help you...

A Virtual Tour of the Plate Stacks with Sarah Lavallee

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PHaEDRA Office Hours This is a video tour of the Plate Stacks at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian as part of our monthly Project PHaEDRA Office Hours. There is also an interactive, 360 virtual tour of the Plate Stacks here: https://my...

Digitization Process

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The workflow for Project PHaEDRA is outlined below. It is useful when looking through the process to define three separate workflows that dovetail each other to ensure that all of the relevant systems are in sync. Box Workflow The “Box Workflow” follows...

Citation Guide

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A guide to building citations for archival material in the Harvard Plate Stacks Collection

Evelyn Leland

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Evelyn Frances Leland (1867-1931) worked at the Harvard observatory for 36 years between 1889-1925. She calculated stellar spectra and became an expert on variable stars. Leland assisted Williamina Fleming with measuring the brightness and period of tens...

Astronomy and Spectroscopy

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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. Work with Spectra Annie Jump Cannon is most well known for her work with stellar spectra. Using glass plate photographs on which starlight had been spread out by a prism at the telescope focal point, she...

Variable Stars and Nebula

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Written by Peggy Wargelin, Wolbach Library, 2018. The Horsehead Nebula Williamina Fleming was prolific in her science. You might recognize the Horsehead Nebula, one of her early discoveries from 1888 (Fig. 4). While the newer image is colorized and...

Mary Miller

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Mary Louise Miller Thorndike (c. 1908-?) worked at the Harvard College Observatory from approximately 1926-1931 and 1934-1941. Miller Thorndike did volunteer computing work at the HCO under the supervision of Cecilia Payne (later Payne-Gaposchkin) while...

Astronomical Glass Plate Photographs Presentation by Lindsay Smith Zrull

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Presentation from the second Project PHaEDRA Virtual Office Hour on 12/8/2020. Speaker: Lindsay Smith Zrull, Curator, Astronomical Photographic Plate Collection, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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There are different ways to search different parts of our collection. If you are interested in exploring our plates and their historic jackets and learning about who used each plate, use our newest and largest database, StarGlass. If you would like to see...