Posts Tagged ‘Josh Hauck’
Counting Questions: Dudley Observatory FAQ
To start off, I thought I would use this space to answer some of the most common questions that I receive on the exhibit floor: Where is the Observatory? Funny…
Read MoreFrom the Collection: the Pruyn Brashear Equatorial Telescope
With the recent announcement that Dudley will be building an observatory, it seems like a good time to introduce the piece that will be at the heart of that observatory:…
Read MoreFrom the Collection: Dopplemayer’s “Atlas novus coelesti”
The night sky has always been a source of inspiration for art that borders on science (or maybe the other way around). Examples are as ancient as the Dunhuang Star Chart,…
Read MoreDudley’s Female Computers
Dudley Observatory has spent most of its 160 years as a working science institution, and not a museum. That means that its employees weren’t always focused on saving the kind…
Read MoreFrom the Collection: Gemini S-10 Particle Collector
Few pieces in our collection have traveled as far as this one, or seen quite so much. This is the S-10 Particle Collector, from the Gemini space program. How Dudley…
Read MoreSTEM Education for the Young to the Young-at-heart
Our high flying outreach astronomer Dr. Valerie Rapson recently gave a Tedx Talk in Albany about the need for continuing education in the STEM fields, the ways in which we…
Read MoreFrom the Collection: Groundbreaking Soil
As a museum worker, it’s always nice to have things in your collection that are a little unconventional. Books and artworks are great, but there’s something fun about having a…
Read MoreFrom the Library: “Radial Velocity of the Andromeda Nebula”
If you were to list the great astronomers of the last century, just based on your own memory, it’s a safe bet that Vesto Slipher would not be a name…
Read MoreUnprofessional Science
In a previous post, I mention the “professionalization of science,” a cultural shift in which Dudley had a part to play. It immediately raises the question, what exactly does “un-professional…
Read MoreOdds and Ends: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Throughout its history, Dudley Observatory has had a weird sort of half-fame. Yes, it’s a modest observatory in smAlbany, but there have been a lot of eyes upon it. Particularly…
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