Behind the Scenes w Project PHaEDRA Harvard Smithsonian Astronomical Glass Plate Photo Collection
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Check out the fourth video in our series from the staff at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics' Wolbach Library! This video explores how the "women computers" at the Harvard College Observatory (as it was called in the 19th and early 20th centuries) used glass plate images of the night sky to study astronomy.