Solar activity
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
A.H. Swinton: The Sun and the Harvest
Newspaper cuttings, statistics and diagrams illustrating sunspots and their relation to the harvest, 1906-1912. On fo. 59 is a copy of a letter from Sir Norman Lockyer to Swinton, 8 May 1901.
Edward Walter Maunder and Annie Scott Dill Maunder: papers, 1877 - 2008
The collection primarily consists of the Maunders' published works both on their research and explanatory works on astronomy for a more popular audience. Some of these publications bear annotations. There are also some notes on a variety of subjects, a pin-hole camera, a planisphere and some items of correspondence. There is supporting material in the form of obituaries, letters of condolence and subsequent published works on the Maunders and their work.
Ely Observatory Solar Plates Contact Prints: from Canon William Selwyn's observatory, 1863-02-11 - 1874-02-25
The prints span an eleven year period ostensibly to record a whole solar or sunspot cycle. That the purpose of the exercise may have been to investigate the supposed effect of planetary configuration on the abundance of solar spots is indicated by the presence of charts of planetary positions pasted on the verso of the mount boards and corresponding in date precisely to the prints.
Kew Observatory papers, 1829 - 1911
Kew Observatory solar photographs, 1858 - 1872
RGO 67 largely consists of a good run of contact prints from glass plate negatives of the sun produced between January 1862 and January 1872. The most significant breaks are December 1862-May 1863 and August-September 1872. Additionally there are a handful of glass plate negatives and contact prints produced in 1858-9, and one further negative dated 1866. The sequence of images is essentially continued by RGO 51: RO and RGO Solar Plates Contact Prints.
Kew Observatory sunspot observations, 1858 - 1897
RGO 57 contains drawings of sunspots showing their development, size and grouping, with tables recording the number of sunspots for each year.
RO and RGO Solar Plates, 1918 - 1979
RO and RGO Solar Plates Contact Prints, 1873-06-02 - 1972-08-02
Sunspot drawings of H.S. Schwabe, 1869 - 1880
Volume of photographs re the Labrador Eclipse Expedition of 1905, 1905
The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.

