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Sadler—also the director of the Astronomy Education Project in the Harvard College Observatory??currently teaches Astronomy 2: “Celestial Navigation”, which was first offered in 1897 and is the oldest continually offered course at Harvard...
Grindlay had sought funding to digitize glass plate images of stars held at the Harvard Observatory??a project that will ultimately require $3 or 4 million, he says...
...professors’ doors” at Harvard. He asked astrophysics professor James M. Moran if he could conduct research in his lab. Moran was surprised at the time that a physics student would seek out research in astronomy. “We are up here in the observatory??it’s rare to have a physics kid tramping through looking for projects, at least back then,” he said.Though Moran said it was a bit unusual to give a project to an undergraduate, he was willing to take Greene on.Twenty-five years later, Moran...
...Cambridge had its own Moonwatch Team based on the roof of the Observatory??s D Building...
...administration’s call to shift funding away from the observatory would carry more weight were Congress ever dissatisfied with the program’s performance. Instead, however, many members of Congress have taken up the observatory??s cause. Thirty-two representatives have signed a letter to protect the center’s funding. We hope that they will be able to block the proposed change and to preserve the independence that has made the Smithsonian Observatory an invaluable scientific asset...