A set of hard-cover note books used to record the progress of research programmes carried out on a certain telescope. During this period of Boyden’s history, photography was the principal method of detecting and recording information. Typically, a piece of glass was coated with a photographic em...
Log Book: 13-inch Boyden Refractor (Plate Series X): Imaging and Spectrography Programmes (1922-1924)
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Title from cover: "X / 13-inch Boyden / EPEMERIS". Several programmes for direct photography and spectrography, giving lists of targets with subsequent pencilled-in plate numbers. Typed pages, pasted in to the book, describe the procedure to follow for "out-of-focus work", giving equipment setti...
Log Book: 13-inch Boyden Refractor Double Star Programme (1925)
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List of double stars, arranged by Struve Number, giving basic data for each star, followed by pencilled-in plate numbers where applicable. From a label on the cover, the programme is dated 1925 November 03. n/a. Extent: 1 volume containing 28 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: L...
Purple ink stamp on first page: "5[inch] Voigtlander". A plate book (plate numbers 8516-8573) for the period 1925 October 28 to 1926 September 09. Several images were taken of Nova Pictoris. Some remarks may be in Spanish. No plate series is identified. n/a. Extent: 1 volume containing 17 page...
This series consists of daily records of weather conditions as recorded at Boyden Observatory, from 1947 to 1979. Note that two earlier volumes of weather data can be found in the "Astronomical Log Books" series, which is how they were originally arranged at the Observatory. Taken together, thes...