#  Glass Plate Collection News and Publications 

 



##  News and Press

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

- "[Williamina Fleming](https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/astronomer-discovered-over-300-stars-during-her-career-fakfg/14215/)" 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](https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1111648708695719937), NowThis news News, 29 Mar 2020, Kavish Harjai, producer
- "[Cars, Stars, and Rock 'n Roll](/dasch/)", SideDoor's Smithsonian podcast, Season 4, episode 17.
- [What the Obsolete Art of Mapping the Skies on Glass Plates Can Still Teach Us,](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/obsolete-art-mapping-skies-glass-plates-can-still-teach-us-180971890/)Elizabeth Landau, Apr 15, 2019, smithsonian.com
- [The Telescope, Episode 1 of Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World, ](https://www.pbs.org/video/the-telescope-xikqww/)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](http://www.wcvb.com/article/eclipse-women-of-the-stars/12033566)
- "['Women computers' often couldn’t use Harvard’s telescope. They changed astronomy anyway,](http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/08/10/women-computers-held-stars-their-hands/qfLYwpsNZdFNHyiY2igPNJ/story.html?s_campaign=8315)" Cristela Guerra, Boston Globe 'Lifestyle" section, 11 Aug 2017
- "[A team of women is unearthing the forgotten legacy of Harvard’s women ‘computers’](https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-27/team-women-are-unearthing-forgotten-legacy-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'](http://www.wbur.org/artery/2017/03/13/silent-sky-harvard-astronomy-women-computers)", Andrea Shea, WBUR, Mar 13 2017
- "[How Harvard’s vast collection of glass plates still shapes astronomy](http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/02/stars-frozen-in-time)", Meghan Bartels, Astronomy Magazine, 1 Feb 2017
- "[Rings of a Super Saturn, Matthew Kenworthy, Scientific American](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-make-a-map-of-a-super-saturn-s-rings/)", Jan 2016, p34-41 (Payment required)
- "[A Time Capsule of the Universe](http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2015/09/podcast-time-capsule-of-universe.html)", Meg Rosenburg, Physics Central Physics Buzz Blog, 6 Sept 2015
- "[Why Harvard and the Smithsonian teamed up to crowdsource a century of astronomical history](http://www.simonowens.net/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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xJqFtPGAA)", American Museum of Natural History, YouTube Video, 2015
- "[Using 19th Century Technology to Time Travel to the Stars](http://www.universetoday.com/119566/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](https://twitter.com/delurieous/status/555978798055714816/photo/1)", John Lurie, Twitter post, 15 Jan 2015
- "[Preserving the Astronomical Past](http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/astronomy-plates/)", Shraddha Chakradhar, PBS Online, NovaNext, Wed, 10 Dec 2014
- [DASCH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Access_to_a_Sky_Century_@_Harvard) in Wikipedia, initial article: Dec 2014
- "[Digitizing the Harvard Plate Stack Collection: You Can Make a Meaningful Contribution](http://www.astroleague.org/reflector/december-2013-reflector)" Carroll Iorg, Astronomical League President, Reflector, Dec 2013, Vol 66 No. 1 p4
- "[From Glass to Gigabytes](http://www.patrickmccray.com/2014/10/27/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](http://www.space.com/14359-telescope-photographic-plates-dasch-variable-stars.html) and [Yahoo! News, 29 Jan 2012](http://news.yahoo.com/star-discoveries-found-antique-telescope-plates-132805474.html)
- "[Recording A Century of Night Skies Through A Scanner Darkly](http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/recording-century-night-skies-through-scanner-darkly)", Rebecca Boyle, Popular Science, 2 Nov 2011
- "[Plate Tech Tonic: World's Largest Collection of Astronomical Photographic Plates Is (Slowly) Going Digital](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dasch-harvard-stacks)", John Matson, Scientific American, 29 Sept 2010
- "[A Celestial Trip Back in Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euPoMSQgYkQ)", 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](http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/07.23/dasch.html)", Alvin Powell, Harvard University Gazette, 2 July 2009
- "[Stars in Dusty Filing Cabinets](http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/324/5926/460)", Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Science, Vol 324, 24 Apr 2009, p460-461 (Payment required)
- "[AAS 2009: A century of night](http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/2009/01/aas_2009.html)", Eric Hand, Nature reporter's blog from conferances and events, 6 Jan 2009
- "[Harvard: Honoring Henrietta Swan Leavitt](http://www.starwrite.org/harvard.html)", Katy Sternberger, Nov 2008
- "[The Harvard Computers](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7209/pdf/455036a.pdf)", 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](http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=519383)," Nathan C. Strauss, Harvard Crimson, 27 Jul 2007.
- "[A Trip Back in Time and Space](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10astro.html)," George Johnson, New York Times, 10 Jul 2007 (Payment required) [Author George Johnson](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/george_johnson/index.html) also wrote *Miss Leavitt's Stars, the Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe.*
- [Thread from Slashdot.org](http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/11/217218)

##  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](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012A&A...537A..34J)
- [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.](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13834.x)
- [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](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008A&A...486..891M)
- [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](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006PASP..118.1533T)
- [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](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?bibcode=2003ApJ...593L.121W)
- [Turner, D. (2002), The Power of Archival Astronomy, , Presented at the 91st Annual Meeting of the AAVSO](http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/plates/publications/jaavso-TURNER.pdf)
- Disclaimer: The Curatorial team can make no representation concerning the accuracy of these sources.