Astronomy
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 201 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Philip Homer Page: Clock and Indicator papers
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5747
Scope and Contents
Diagrams of a clock and indicator invented by P.H. Page, partly in his hand, and partly in typescript, with an accompanying letter from C.T. Wood to C.E. Sayle, 20 January 1908; Page, 'Observations and Criticism on Bonnycastle's Astronomy'; a letter from Page to F.J.H. Jenkinson, 18 January 1908; a letter from the Page to H.G. Aldis, 13 November 1913; Page, 'Clock and Indicator'; a letter from H. Montagu Butler to F.J.H. Jenkinson, 27 March 1907; a letter from Page to H. Montagu Butler, 12...
Dates:
1907-1913
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
Photographic Zenith Tube: Records, c.1940s-1980s
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 103
Scope and Contents
The PZT papers include: five boxes of Dudley S. Perfect and PZT papers; two observer's notebooks (1982-1983); three fault repair notebooks (c.1973-1983); a PZT 'phase slips and clock repair book' (1975); and PZT plate records.
Dates:
c.1940s-1980s
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Planetary Occultations and Eclipses of Natural Satellites: records, 1887 - 1933
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 161
Scope and Contents
Registers of:
1. Eclipses, Occultations etc of Jupiter's Satellites', on printed Royal Observatory Greenwich 'Forms No.202*'.
2. Occultations of stars and planet by the Moon', on printed Royal Observatory Greenwich 'Forms No.202**'.
3. Reductions of occultations of stars and planet by the Moon, on printed Royal Observatory Greenwich 'Forms No.31'.
Dates:
1887 - 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Presentation at the London Planetarium for a delegation from Academia Sinica, Peking, China, 19 October 1961, 1960 - 1979-02-06
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/75
Scope and Contents
The presentation was a joint lecture between Joseph Needham and Leonard Clarke, Senior Narrator of The London Planetarium.
Dates:
1960 - 1979-02-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Needham Research Institute. For further details on conditions governing access please contact the Librarian at library@nri.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours is available from the Institute's website https://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/the-archive.
File
Press cuttings, circa 1960s-1970s, 1960 - 1972
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 190/4
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings on the discovery of quasars and pulsars, the launch of Apollo 16 (1972), the possibility of a future Mars landing and of life on Mars, and the health impact for astronauts landing on the Moon.
Dates:
1960 - 1972
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Printers' and publishers' accounts, 1767 - 1829
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/15
Scope and Contents
The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with related papers.
Dates:
1767 - 1829
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Printers' and publishers' accounts, 1782 - 1829
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/16
Scope and Contents
The accounts of printers and publishers for Board of Longitude publications, with miscellaneous accounts.
Dates:
1782 - 1829
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
P.S. Laurie Wartime diaries and World War files, c.1918, 1939-1945, 1990-1982
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107/1
Scope and Contents
Laurie worked in the Solar Department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, which remained open throughout the Second World War. This section includes two wartime diaries kept by Laurie, along with photocopies and a related article. There are two second world war files: one comprised of war-era circulars, notices, and ration lists etc.; the other comprised of bomb damage reports for the ROG. There is also a handwritten 'Klaxon warning' notice giving orders for dome watchers in the event of...
Dates:
c.1918, 1939-1945, 1990-1982
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Records of Cambridge University Astronomical Society, 2008 - 2011
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.111
Scope and Contents
Comprise: agenda for committee meeting on Oct. 2010; minutes of committee meetings, Apr. 2008 and May 2011; Chairman's annual report, Apr. 2011; print-out of Chairman's e-mail communications to the membership, 2010-11; calendars of society events, 2009-10, 2010-11; almanac, 2009-10; observing guide, 2009; posters advertising talks, 2009-11; dinner menu, Mar. 2011; design for society T-shirt and sweatshirt, n.d.
Dates:
2008 - 2011
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Reduction of the astronomical observations made during the voyage of HMS Investigator, 1801 - 1805
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/65
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1801 - 1805
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Requests for Astronomical Information: celestial phenomena and unidentified flying objects, 1968-1975, 1978
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 83
Scope and Contents
This class consists of requests for astronomical information sent to the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1968 and 1975. It includes letters from the public, both in the UK and worldwide. Both incoming letters and carbon copies of official responses are preserved, with replies generally signed by Humphry Smith or William (Bill) Nicholson who were joint Press Officers from 1968.The first nine files are letters from the UK, deemed ‘general’ or ‘special’, and each organised in...
Dates:
1968-1975, 1978
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Results from Cordoba: daily means in R.A. [Right Ascension] for 27 nights, 1930 - 1931
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 81/24
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Records for the 1930-1931 parallax programme of the Royal Observatory Greenwich and Cape Observatory to determine the solar parallax (distance to the Sun) by observations of the minor planet Eros and comparison stars. The records comprise tabulated data sets based on photographic observations taken at Greenwich and at various international observatories (RGO 81/2-48), along with 20 volumes of micrometric measurements of photographic observations of Eros and comparison stars from...
Dates:
1930 - 1931
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Results sent from Cordoba to H. Spencer Jones at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, 1930 - 1939
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 81/21
Scope and Contents
Also included are some explanatory notes and a covering letter from Juan José Nissen, Director of the Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba, Argentina, dated 16 Nov. 1939.
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Results sent from Hyderabad to H. Spencer Jones at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, 1930 - 1941
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 81/22
Scope and Contents
Results of the observations of Eros, 1930-1931, made with the 13" Astrographic Refractor, Hyderabad. Sent in two sets; each includes a cover letter from W. Bhaskaran (dated Apr. 1940. and 11 Mar. 1941).
Dates:
1930 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Fonds
Revd. Arthur Ashley Sykes, letters and tables on eclipses from Gabriel Morris
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10237
Scope and Contents
A series of four letters, including some calculation tables, written by Gabriel Morris to the Revd. Arthur Ashley Sykes (1684?-1756), discussing the extent of various eclipses, with mention of Edmund Halley.
Dates:
Sep. 1732-Oct. 1732
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Series
RGO and Aston University Hewitt Camera Project: papers, 1978 - 1986
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 98
Scope and Contents
In 1975 the Science Research Council approved proposals from the Universities of Aston and Leicester for a new UK programme of optical tracking of satellites for geodetic analysis. The Hewitt Camera near Evesham (later referred to as 'the Malvern site') was initially manned by the Ordnance Survey and the SRC proposed that a second observing team from the University of Aston would also participate in the tracking. The Ordnance Survey, however, stopped using the Malvern Hewitt Camera in 1976...
Dates:
1978 - 1986
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
RGO and Herstmonceux Castle Estate: papers and records, 1800 - 2001
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 109
Scope and Contents
This class contains records for the history of Herstmonceux Castle, both before and during the time the RGO was based at the site. Series 1-4 consist of paper records; series 5-7 of drawings, photographs, postcards and slides.Series 1 comprises historical items relating to the history of the castle before the RGO, ranging from a framed laundry bill from c.1800, to historical notes on the history of Herstmonceux Castle with pedigrees for the Fiennes family.Series 2...
Dates:
1800 - 2001
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
RGO Danjon Astrolabe papers, 1958 - 1979
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 87
Scope and Contents
The Danjon Astrolabe is a highly specialised instrument developed in the 1950s for use as an alternative to conventional transit instruments, which had many sources of potential error. In July 1959, a Danjon astrolabe (OPL No.9) was brought into service at the RGO Herstmonceux under the direction of C. A. Murray, primarily in order to extend the study of its effectiveness in determining corrections to the catalogue positions of bright stars. Before commencing operations, the method of...
Dates:
1958 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-sub-series
RGO Herstmonceux and Cape Observatory Solar Plates, 1963
Sub-sub-series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 85/1/2
Scope and Contents
A set of glass plate negatives showing images of the sun taken at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Herstmonceux and at the Cape Observatory. The plates cover 15 April to 11 May 1963. They appear to be additional to those held at RGO 50.
Dates:
1963
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Available only by prior request from the RGO Archivist, Emma Saunders: els57@cam.ac.uk.
Sub-sub-series
RGO Herstmonceux and Cape Observatory Solar Plates, 1960 - 1961
Sub-sub-series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 85/1/1
Scope and Contents
A set of glass plate negatives showing images of the sun taken mainly at the Cape Observatory, with some from RGO Herstmonceux. The plates cover 30 August - 27 December 1960 and 20 April - 21 June 1961. They appear to be additional to those held at RGO 50.
Dates:
1960 - 1961
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Sub-Series:
Available only by prior request from the RGO Archivist, Emma Saunders: els57@cam.ac.uk.
Series
RGO Herstmonceux Solar Records: Lyot filter negative registers, 1955 - 1979
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 65
Scope and Contents
A set of notebooks with handwritten entries recording film negatives created with the Lyot Filter at RGO Herstmonceux. The original film negatives are not held at Cambridge University Library, but a handwritten list of the films is available on request from the RGO Archivist.
Dates:
1955 - 1979
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
RGO La Palma Operations Division and the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory: Papers and Records, c.1980-2015 (mainly to 1998)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 100
Scope and Contents
Papers, records and photographs for the RGO La Palma Operations Division and the Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory. Includes paper files recording day to day administration, a large series of photographic records (many in albums), various sets of publications relating to telescopes and instruments, and a small set of press cuttings.In 1969, a sub-committee of the Astronomy, Space and Radio Board (ASRB) of the Science Research Council was established to examine the SRC’s future...
Dates:
c.1980-2015 (mainly to 1998)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
RGO Time Department: Papers, 1872 - 1989
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 43
Scope and Contents
Catalogue in progress. Further records will be uploaded over the coming months.
Dates:
1872 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
Part restricted. Much of this collection is as yet unprocessed. Requests to view unlisted material should be sent to els57@cam.ac.uk. Access to files RGO 43/78-81 is restricted until 80 years from the date of creation under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018.
File
'ROG History 1914-1918, First World War', 1918 or later
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 107/1/6
Scope and Contents
Typescript recounting the work of remaining ROG staff during the First World War in the cleaning and adjustment of binoculars as part of the war effort. Author unknown [Philip S. Laurie?].
Dates:
1918 or later
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
ROG/RGO Photographic Registers, Measures and Observations, 1890 - 1968
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 156
Scope and Contents
Registers of photographic plates taken with the Thompson Equatorial Group of Telescopes (series RGO 156/1) and 13-inch Astrographic Telescope (series RGO 156/2). Both series list the photographs taken in order of plate number, and have two separate plate number runs, representing first the Greenwich plates and then plates taken when the instruments were moved to Herstmonceux. The objects imaged are listed, along with right ascension and declination, the initials of the observer, and other...
Dates:
1890 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).