![]() ![]() ![]() Early contacts and interests in photoelectric photometry, his pioneering efforts in red sensitive cell photometry, work at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT during World War II, postwar research at the Naval Observatory and his co-discovery of interstellar polarization. Hall's early interest in astronomy comments about family background and early childhood, schooling in Connecticut and college training at University of Amherst and Yale University. All rights reserved.Elske van Panhuys Smith discusses topics including: her childhood in Monaco, Austria, Holland, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and the United States of America undergraduate education at Radcliffe with Harlow Shapley marriage to Henry Smith graduate school in astronomy at Harvard University with Bart Bok job interviews with Leo Goldberg, Jesse Greenstein, Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM), Jack Evans job offer at Sacramento Peak reception from graduate professors concerning solar astronomy family life and children in Alamogordo High Altitude Observatory fellowship at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder move to Washington, DC for husband's job offer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) headquarters teaching position at the University of Maryland American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the early years of the Solar Physics Division (SPD) discrimination against women in scence Ed Dennison Donald Menze Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) teaching and administration in the College of Humanities and Science research at the Naval Observatory and Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. The observatory also has an extensive library. Naval Observatory has included the Nautical Almanac Office, which publishes the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. Atomic clocks, cesium clocks, mercury ion clocks, and hydrogen maser frequency standards are all used for the observatory's time system, which is accurate to within a few billionths of a second per day. The main programs of the Naval Observatory involve continual observations of the positions and motions of celestial bodies for astronomical and navigational purposes and for the derivation and broadcasting of accurate time signals. Christy discovered Pluto's moon Charon with the 61-in. The observatory's Flagstaff Station in Arizona has 61-in. Other equipment includes a number of ordinary refracting and reflecting telescopes and special telescopes (photographic zenith tubes) used in the precise determination of time. The original mounting and drive were replaced during the 1893 move. refracting telescope, which has been in almost continuous operation since its installation in 1873, when it was the largest of its kind in the world. The principal instrument at the Washington headquarters is an Alvan Clark 26-in. It was formerly administered through the Bureau of Navigation and is now under the jurisdiction of the chief of naval operations. It evolved from the Navy's oldest scientific institution, the Depot of Charts and Instruments, founded in 1830 the observatory was completed in 1844 and moved to its present site in 1893. United States Naval Observatory, a federal astronomical observatory, located in Washington, D.
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