Reading Nature, Observing Science: Examining Material Practices in the Lick Observatory Archives and Kenneth S. Norris PapersMain MenuIntroduction to the Lick Observatory ArchivesThe Lick Observatory: Imaging the CosmosIntroduction to Kenneth S. Norris PapersKenneth S. Norris Papers: Natural History in PracticeKenneth S. Norris Papers: Pedagogy and ConservationConnections: In Relation to NatureThese images demonstrate the different constructions of nature in the two archivesConnections: Materials of ObservationVisualization of the ConnectionsVisualizes the connections between all the contentReading Nature, Observing ScienceCaptions and information for the cases of objects on display at UCSC Special CollectionsAlex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6Christine Turkb279a3dcf419860f915007f04f08e6fc0f8662ceDanielle Crawford22ce6a14f83c9ff73c3545a665951a092258f08e
The Lick Observatory: Eclipse Expeditions
1media/UA36/UA36_Bx461_FryeburgSolarProminences006.jpg2016-05-03T10:04:24-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6918426Eclipse Intro page (first in a path)splash2016-06-04T22:38:08-07:00Danielle Crawford22ce6a14f83c9ff73c3545a665951a092258f08eBetween 1889 and 1932 the Lick Observatory astronomers conducted 17 expeditions across 6 continents to observe and photograph eclipses. These expeditions strove to answer the following questions:
What is the solar corona?
Why does the sun have a corona?
Can General Relativity be proved?
Are there other planets or unknown bodies revolving around the sun?
During this time, the Directors of the Lick saw the documentation and analysis of eclipses as a core contribution of the Lick to the field of astronomy, both in attempting to answer the questions posed above, but also simply to record the eclipses for posterity.
This page has paths:
12016-05-03T09:50:56-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6Introduction to the Lick Observatory ArchivesChristine Turk50plain2017-06-07T13:11:09-07:00Christine Turkb279a3dcf419860f915007f04f08e6fc0f8662ce
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12016-05-15T12:01:52-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6Eclipse Expeditions in Context4Raising ideas related to social and political contextstructured_gallery2016-06-08T15:47:19-07:00Danielle Crawford22ce6a14f83c9ff73c3545a665951a092258f08e
12016-06-04T10:01:39-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6Understanding the Sun23This group of illustrations and photographs traces the struggle of astronomers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to understand the sun, particularly the nature of sun spots and the solar corona.plain2016-06-10T15:56:05-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6
12016-06-03T16:27:07-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6The Importance of framing12These four images of the Schaeberle camera point to the importance that framing can play in a photograph and the story that it tells.plain2016-06-10T16:00:33-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6
12016-05-19T15:35:34-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a640 ft Schaeberle Camera9Tag for 40ft telescopegallery2016-06-02T21:32:01-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6
12016-05-19T15:53:03-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6Onsite labor15At each site, months of labor--from the unloading of cargo and washing of dishes to the construction of the Schaeberle instrument and its precisely timed manipulation--went into the production of the final images.gallery2016-06-10T16:13:38-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6
12016-05-11T22:17:00-07:00Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490Map of Eclipse Expedition Sites10google_maps2016-06-10T17:24:18-07:00Alex Moore6cd84a9f7efd71803c15562e48a509db9e0bb5a6