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Date(s) - 08/18/2021
4:00 pm
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The Carnegie Observatories’ Astronomical Plate Archive is the second largest in theU.S. and includes some of the most important observations in astronomy in the past 100 years.
These images sparked Edwin Hubble’s realization of the expanding universe, led George Ellery Hale to discover the sun’s magnetic field and provided the basis for theories of how stars and galaxies form.
For the monthly Cosmic Cocktail Hour, Kit Whitten, librarian and archivist at the Hale Library, will show and explain images from the library’s Astronomical Plate Archive of more than 200,000 photographic glass plate negatives created between 1892 and the early 1990s using telescopes at Mount Wilson, Palomar, Las Campanas and Kenwood observatories. The archives also include a collection of photographic prints of deep space, historical photographs of the Carnegie Observatories, including Las Campanas and Kenwood, and engineering drawings and blueprints of Carnegie Observatory telescopes.
Whitten also will provide an overview of the library’s large astronomy collections of books, periodicals, sky charts, films and more.
Presented by the Pasadena Senior Center, the cost for Cosmic Cocktail Hour is only $7 for members and $10 for nonmembers 50 and older. Residency in Pasadena is not required. The Zoom link will be given after registering.
> To register, see this link, or call 626-765-4331.
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