News and Press

The following is a list of content highlighting the Collection and it's associated projects:

• "Williamina Fleming" PBS series Unladylike2020: Unsung Women Who Changed America, Aired May 6, 2020.
• Williamina Fleming, an astronomer who began her career as a domestic servant, inspired generations of women to pursue science, NowThis news News, 29 Mar 2020, Kavish Harjai, producer
• "Cars, Stars, and Rock 'n Roll", SideDoor's Smithsonian podcast, Season 4, episode 17. 
• What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us,Elizabeth Landau, Apr 15, 2019, smithsonian.com
• The Telescope, Episode 1 of Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World, aired April, 2019, Public Broadcasting Service
• The Enigma that is BL Lacertae, by David Nakamoto, Sky and Telescope, October 2018, page 30-35
• "Harvard's Plate Project and Women Computers" Al Lamperti, Astronomical League, Reflector, Sept 2017, Vol 69 No. 4, p12
• Eclipse: Women of the Stars, WCVB Boston, 18 Aug 2017
• "'Women computers' often couldn’t use Harvard’s telescope. They changed astronomy anyway," Cristela Guerra, Boston Globe 'Lifestyle" section, 11 Aug 2017
• "A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’," Alex Newman, Public Radio International (PRI): Arts, Culture & Media, 27 July 2017
• "'Hidden Figures' Of Astronomy At Harvard Take Center Stage In Play About Women 'Computers'", Andrea Shea, WBUR, Mar 13 2017
• "How Harvard’s vast collection of glass plates still shapes astronomy", Meghan Bartels, Astronomy Magazine, 1 Feb 2017
• "Rings of a Super Saturn, Matthew Kenworthy, Scientific American", Jan 2016, p34-41 (Payment required)
• "A Time Capsule of the Universe", Meg Rosenburg, Physics Central Physics Buzz Blog, 6 Sept 2015
• "Why Harvard and the Smithsonian teamed up to crowdsource a century of astronomical history", Simon Owens, Newsletter blog post, 2015
• "Shelf Life Episode 5 – How To Time Travel To a Star", American Museum of Natural History, YouTube Video, 2015
• "Using 19th Century Technology to Time Travel to the Stars", Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, 25 Mar 2015
• "95 year-long 'movie' of a red dwarf binary whirling through the galaxy", John Lurie, Twitter post, 15 Jan 2015
• "Preserving the Astronomical Past", Shraddha Chakradhar, PBS Online, NovaNext, Wed, 10 Dec 2014
• DASCH in Wikipedia, initial article: Dec 2014
• "Digitizing the Harvard Plate Stack Collection: You Can Make a Meaningful Contribution" Carroll Iorg, Astronomical League President, Reflector, Dec 2013, Vol 66 No. 1 p4
• "From Glass to Gigabytes", Patrick McCray, blog post, 27 Oct 2014
• "New Star Discoveries Found in Antique Telescope Plates" Clara Moskowitz, Space.com, 26 Jan 2012 and Yahoo! News, 29 Jan 2012
• "Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly", Rebecca Boyle, Popular Science, 2 Nov 2011
• "Plate Tech Tonic: World's Largest Collection of Astronomical Photographic Plates Is (Slowly) Going Digital", John Matson, Scientific American, 29 Sept 2010
• "A Celestial Trip Back in Time", by Matt Tempesta, Emerson College Journalism Student, 26 Apr 2010
• "Digitizing History", by Stephen Lieber, Sky and Telescope, Mar 2010, p31-34
• "Building a Stellar Time Machine", Alvin Powell, Harvard University Gazette, 2 July 2009
• "Stars in Dusty Filing Cabinets", Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science, Vol 324, 24 Apr 2009, p460-461 (Payment required)
• "AAS 2009: A century of night", Eric Hand, Nature reporter's blog from conferances and events, 6 Jan 2009
• "Harvard: Honoring Henrietta Swan Leavitt", Katy Sternberger, Nov 2008
• "The Harvard Computers", Sue Nelson, Nature, Vol 455, 4 Sept 2008, p36-37.
• "Astronomes d'Harvard : ils vont sauver des observations historiques", Myriam Détruy, Ciel & Espace, Nov 2007, p8-12.
• "Observing the Past," Nathan C. Strauss, Harvard Crimson, 27 Jul 2007.
• "A Trip Back in Time and Space," George Johnson, New York Times, 10 Jul 2007 (Payment required) Author George Johnson also wrote Miss Leavitt's Stars, the Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe.
• Thread from Slashdot.org

Research Citing the Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection
 

• R. Jurdana-Šepić, V.A.R.M Ribeiro, M.J. Darnley, U. Munari, and M.F. Bode, (2012), Historical Light Curve and Search for Previous Outbursts of Nova KT Eridani (2009) ,Astronomy and Astrophysics, 537, A34
• Majaess, D. J.; Turner, D. G.; Lane, D. J. (2008), Assessing potential cluster Cepheids from a new distance and reddening parametrization and Two Micron All Sky Survey photometry,Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 390, Issue 4, pp. 1539-1548.
• Marquette, J. B., et al. (2008), Discovery of a peculiar Cepheid-like star towards the northern edge of the Small Magellanic CloudAstronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 486, Issue 3, 2008, pp.891-898
• Turner, D; Rohanizadegan, M.; Berdnikov, L; and Pastukhova, E. (2006), The Long Term Behavior of the Semiregular M Supergiant Variable BC Cygni,Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 118: 1533-1544
• Winn, Joshua N.; Garnavich, Peter M.; Stanek, K. Z.; Sasselov, Dimitar D. (2003), Limits on Eclipses of the Pre-Main-Sequence Star KH 15D in the First Half of the 20th Century, The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 593, Issue 2, p L121-L124
• Turner, D. (2002), The Power of Archival Astronomy, , Presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO
• Disclaimer: The Curatorial team can make no representation concerning the accuracy of these sources.