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Pickering sunshine recorder
Pickering sunshine recorder

Pickering sunshine recorder

Date1887
Inventory Number1998-1-0839
ClassificationSunshine recorder
Subject
    Maker Edward C. Pickering 1846 - 1919
    Maker Harvard University founded 1636
    Maker Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory 1885-present
    Cultural Region
      Place of Use
        Dimensions17 × 21.7 × 15.2 cm (6 11/16 × 8 9/16 × 6 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionAn irregularly shaped, dark metal housing, flat on one side and angled on the other, is mounted at an angle on a wooden base. The housing is designed to hold a piece of photographic paper, which will be exposed to sunshine through a small opening in the housing throughout the day.
          Signedunsigned
          Functionthe sunshine recorder is designed to record how much sunshine or cloud cover was present in a day. As noted in, The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory: The First 100 Years - 1885-1985, John H. Conover, American Meteorological Society, 1990, Appendix B, pg 437, No. 60, "Made for use on five successive days. (For noon-sunset only)."
          Pickering photographic sunshine recorder, afternoon half
          Pickering photographic sunshine recorder, afternoon half
          William Henry Pickering
          Date: circa 1889
          Object number: 1996-1-0191
          Campbell-Stokes burning glass sunshine duration recorder
          Campbell-Stokes burning glass sunshine duration recorder
          L. Casella
          Date: circa 1886
          Accessories: metal 3/4 of a circle (1998-1-0836b); holds a cardboard strip with calibrations marked on it
          Object number: 1998-1-0836a,b
          Maurer heliograph
          Maurer heliograph
          Th. Usteri-Reinacher
          Date: late 19th Century
          Object number: 1996-1-0244
          Jordan sunshine recorder
          Jordan sunshine recorder
          Negretti and Zambra
          Date: mid 19th-mid 20th Century
          Accessories: metal cap
          Object number: 1998-1-0843
          Marvin sunshine recorder
          Marvin sunshine recorder
          Julien P. Friez
          Date: 1890-1910
          Accessories: part (a) is the stand, part (b) is the sensor
          Object number: 1998-1-0837a,b
          research talk illustration: Examples of Pickerings photographic methods
          research talk illustration: Examples of Pickerings photographic methods
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: 1888-1892
          Object number: 1998-1-1040g
          research talk illustration: Bache Photographic Telescope. July 18, 1896
          research talk illustration: Bache Photographic Telescope. July 18, 1896
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: circa 1896
          Object number: 2001-1-0029y
          research talk illustration: The Bruce Photographic Telescope
          research talk illustration: The Bruce Photographic Telescope
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: 1896
          Object number: 1998-1-1040l
          research talk illustration: Early photograhs of Novae, 1893-1898
          research talk illustration: Early photograhs of Novae, 1893-1898
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: 1893-1898
          Object number: 1998-1-1040b
          research talk illustration: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College
          research talk illustration: Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: circa 1896
          Object number: 2001-1-0029a
          research talk illustration: Arequipa Station from the South-west
          research talk illustration: Arequipa Station from the South-west
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: circa 1896
          Object number: 2001-1-0029b
          research talk illustration: Meteorological Station on EL Misti
          research talk illustration: Meteorological Station on EL Misti
          Edward C. Pickering
          Date: circa 1896
          Object number: 2001-1-0029c