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Historical Variable Star Catalogs
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posted on 2015-01-06, 15:10 authored by Ashley PagnottaAshley Pagnotta, Or Graur, Zachary Murray, Julia Kruk, Lucien Christie-Dervaux, Dong Yi ChenSlides from my talk during one of the Historical Astronomy Division sessions at AAS 225 in Seattle, WA (January 2015). A brief history of the variable star catalogs Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin assembled at Harvard, and the update to them that some of our students at AMNH have done.
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