The Boyden Station At Arequipa, Peru: Astrophysics On A Tight Budget

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Jan 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21721002w&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #210.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The history of the Harvard College Observatory includes Edward Charles Pickering's ambitious plan to catalogue the night sky in terms of standardized photometry and spectral classification of all stars in both the Northern and Southern celestial hemispheres. In 1890, Pickering established the HCO's Boyden Station at Arequipa, Peru, to provide the raw material from which to construct those catalogues. This paper will consider the operation of the Boyden Station during the first two decades of the twentieth century with particular emphasis on the period during which Leon Campbell supervised the station, and reflect on the consequences of Pickering's scientific agenda, management style and budgetary constraints as reflected by that operation.

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