A new play about Henrietta Swan Leavitt and the real women "computers" working at the dawn of modern astronomy. A celestial romance and true story of discovery. Now published by DramatistsPlay...
By Lauren Gunderson, Directed by Robert Smyth, Lamb’s Players, Coronado CA, 2017. Scenic Design: Sean Fanning, Costume Design: Jemima Dutra, Lighting Design: Nathan Peirson, Sound Design & Original Music: Deborah Gilmour Smyth, Projection Design: Michael McKeon.
· 9” x 12” · gouache, watercolor, and colored pencil on paper This large woodpecker used to be common in Willamette Valley, but they have been extirpated from the region due to the decline of open oak habitat, and especially the loss of large snags (dead trees) to nest in. So many woodpeckers are cavity nesters and are threatened by the way we clear out old trees for aesthetic purposes...
Harvard Observatory at Lamb's Players
When astronomer Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she doesn’t begin by looking through a telescope. She joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars as a vital part of the world’s first study of the sky done from photographs. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to
Cambridge, MA
Given the general unfamiliarity with Henrietta Leavitt, Cepheid variable stars or the relationship between the period of a Cepheid and its luminosity, Gunderson brings the audience an amazing distance with this relatively complex material.
In one week you can celebrate a delightfully weird astronomical event: Galactic Tick Day. It was created by a group of West Coast science enthusiasts to celebrate the journey that the Solar System takes around the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. The trip takes about 225 million years, a period they’ve divided into “ticks” (as in a clock’s […]
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped revolutionize the science of astronomy
One woman, after being abandoned while pregnant by her husband, got a job as a maid and ended up discovering the Horsehead Nebula.
Series complete, for now. These are so much easier to do with a model than a self portrait!
A pre-1914 photograph of a physics practical class supervised by George Searle. This famous image shows Searle supervising a practical class in physics in the teaching laboratory on the first floor of the back (east) wing of the original Cavendish building. Searle was a brilliant inventor of physics practical experiments and set the standard for excellence in practical physics. Note the presence of a woman student in the class.
Bleach, Episode 132. #Bleach #Toshiro_Hitsugaya
From ice storms to blizzards and tons of snow accumulation, Wisconsin is no stranger to big, devastating winter storms.
At Harvard Observatory in the late 1800s, over a dozen computers hummed from the busy astronomy calculation room. Devising complex calculations to map the...
Women “computers” are having a pop-culture moment with the Hollywood movie, “Hidden Figures,” a new book, and a locally-produced play about pioneering female astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory.
Fashion Plate - De Gracieuse - 1910
