Hey Project PHaEDRA Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian the Nusat-36 Earth-imaging satellite from Uruguayan-Argentine company Satellogic, launched Apr 15, has been named "ANNIE CANNON". Satellite catalog number 56190.

🌟June 2nd, 5pm-7pm: Katherine Roy will visit the Wolbach Library to talk about her illustrations in her & Kirsten W. Larson's beautiful book about Cecilia Payne, "The Fire of Stars"! This event is open to the public and free! Read more here: library.cfa.harvard.edu/event/art-and-… Katherine Roy 🌱

Join Wolbach Library for a special event about Fire of the Stars, a new picture book about Cecilia Payne. Katherine Roy will give us a behind the scenes look at how science informs art and how curiosity shapes discovery. More info: library.cfa.harvard.edu/event/art-and-…

An image of glass plate MF10322, labeled with star fields and identified variable stars, from Constance D. Boyd's notebook titled "Milky Way Field Comparisons" from 1935. (image: phaedra2579) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

So excited to speak at Harvard this Friday to share THE FIRE OF STARS at Cecilia Payne’s home base! This event is free and open to the public. See you there at 5PM on 6/2! #authorevent Kirsten W. Larson --NOT ACTIVE HERE Chronicle Kids #scicomm

On this page, you can see a star diagram and a small snippet of a plate labeled with stars. From Henrietta Swan Leavitt's notebook titled "Measures of Comparison Stars. Small Magellanic Cloud" from 1906. (image: phaedra2527) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

Images of different star spectra, including Betelgeuse, Arcturus, and Sirius. From Dorrit Hoffleit's notebook titled "Spectral Classification - Bright Stars" from 1935. (image: phaedra2509) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

A page with multiple star diagrams and notes, from Ida E. Woods' notebook titled "Cluster Variables" from 1927. (image: phaedra1222) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

A volunteer found 45 labeled star map sketches here! From the notebook titled "Variables LMC, 1." by Virginia McKibben Nail and Francis Woodworth Wright, from 1948. (image: phaedra2455) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy Classify pages on Star Notes: zooniverse.org/projects/proje…

A labeled star diagram of NGC 6705, known as Messier 11, with a note relating to Henrietta Swan Leavitt's observations, from Ida E. Woods' notebook titled "Cluster Variables" from 1919. (image: phaedra1184) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

A small diagram can be seen on this image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, labeling a "new var. star". From Williamina P. Fleming's notebook titled "Variable Stars" from 1897. (image: phaedra0811) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy

🔭 Did you catch the #PerseidMeteorShower at its peak this weekend? Check out records of #Perseids in years past, transcribed by our #volunpeer community. ☄️ If you love astronomical history, stay tuned for more Project PHaEDRA throughout the week. s.si.edu/3KHCvZL

☄️Did you see the Perseids this year? Here, see Perseid meteors identified on glass plates, noted "Beautiful specimen". From Francis Woodworth Wright's notebook titled "Meteor Photometry Book 2" from 1951. #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy #Perseids (image: phaedra2611)

If you've long felt intimidated by the astronomy notebooks on TC, today is a great time to finally give them a shot! We've been working closely with Project PHaEDRA to revise the project instructions to be clearer and more comprehensive. 🌌 s.si.edu/3KNBrUm

An orbital diagram of the asteroid 629 Bernadina in 1924, from Ida E. Woods' notebook titled "Objects looked up for outsiders by request" from 1922. (image: phaedra1203) #projectphaedra #womeninstem #astronomy #asteroid

📝💫 We have updated the instructions for our projects on the Smithsonian Transcription Center! Smithsonian Transcription Center 💖 Join us on August 29th at 2pm ET to discuss the changes and provide feedback! New instructions here: transcription.si.edu/instructions-w… & Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Our next PHaEDRA Office Hours is on Nov 14 at 2pm US Eastern. Join us as we hear from Center for Astrophysics scientist Caroline Huang about how she and her colleagues plan to use data from PHaEDRA notebooks in their study of variable stars. Register here! harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Looking forward to seeing you at our Office Hours Nov 14 at 2pm US Eastern! CfA scientist Caroline Huang will be showing us how to transcribe notebooks in a way useful for scientists & about her plans to use notebook data in her studies of variable stars! harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Well deserved win by Katherine Roy and Kristen Larson for THE FIRE OF STARS! Congratulations!