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Photos from Wisconsin at the Frontiers of Astronomy


Arthur Dodd Code

Washburn Observatory

Bird Effigy Plaque

John W. Sterling

UW campus circa 1879

Cadwallader Colden Washburn

Cyrus Woodman
Washburn Obsservatory 1880s
Directors Residence

James Craig Watson

15.6 inch Clark refractor

Edward Singleton Holden

Clockroom at Observatory

4.8 inch meridian circle

Sherburne Wesley Burnham

Saturn drawing circa 1882

John E. Davies

Alice Maxwell Lamb

Milton Updegraff

Elizabeth Schofield

George Gary Comstock

Asaph Hall

Johann Georg Hagen

Yerkes Observatory

AASA 1910

Light-curve for star Algol

Joel S. Stebbins

Photoelectric photometer

Charles Morse Huffer

Wasburn Observatory staff 1935

Sterling Hall

Albert Whitford (l) C. Morse Huffer (r)

Pine Bluff Observatory

PBO spectropolarmeter

Star trails above PBO

Einstein at Yerkes

Kitt Peak Nat'l Observatory

Sputnik replica

Mercury 7 astronauts

Jim Lovell

Laurel Clark

Examining spin-scan camera images

ATS-1 spin-scan image of Earth

Arthur D. Code

Code's 100lb UV satellite

Theodore E. Houck (l)

Robert C. Bless

SAL experiment aboard X-15

Aerobee suborbital rocket

Wisconsin Experimental Package

Space Astronomy Laboratory

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory group

OAO-2 launch

UW Astronomy department 1960s

OAO comet observations


Hubble Space Telescope (HST)


High Speed Photometer (HSP) clean room

HST servicing

Crab nebula

Kenneth Nordsieck

WI Ultraviolet Phot-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE) in clean room

WUPPE aboard space shuttle

OAO opacity diagram

William Kraushaar

Diffuse X-ray Spectrometer (DXS)

Wi Hydrogen-Apha Mapper (WHAM)

IceCube array

Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array

Composite of galaxy Centaurus A

WIYN telescope

WIYN domes at Kitt Peak

WIYN actuators

WIYN image of spiral galaxy NGC 891

SALT mirror assembly


SALT mirror closeup

SALT "first light" spiral galaxy NGC 6744

Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS)

Large Magellanic Cloud

GLIMPSE Milky Way mapping

Comet Hale-Bopp

ST5000 team

Space Place Crowd Scene

Girl with Telescope

Kids with 15inch telescope

Washburn Observatory from Mendota