Observations on Annie Jump Cannon Notebooks
What I think the notations mean
Advanced Project Instructions
https://transcription.si.edu/instructions-women-computers-workbooks Project Phaedra instructions
https://transcription.si.edu/advancedinstructions General Advanced Instructions (use Phaedra where conflict)
The IAU List of the 88 constellations and their abbreviations
Ian Ridpath
http://www.ianridpath.com/constellations1.html (Andromeda - Indus)
http://www.ianridpath.com/constellations2.html (Lacerta - Vulpecula)
Greek symbols, astronomical symbols, Roman numerals, Catalogue, Survey, Telescope
Obliquity Sky Eye
https://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/symbols.html
Biographical and other related items
American Philosophical Society, Annie Jump Cannon biography
https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/annie-jump-cannon
Center for Astrophysics, biography of Henrietta Swan Leavitt on the centennial of her death
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/remembering-astronomer-henrietta-swan-leavitt
Early observations of the Sixth Satellite of Jupiter (1908, E.C. Pickering, Annals of Harvard College Observatory, vol. 60, pp.33-44)
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1908AnHar..60...33P
Harvard College Observatory Circular 74. "Variable Stars of Long Period." E.C. Pickering, Jan 1, 1904.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075381069&seq=307
Snippet of the table from Circ 74, used by Cannon
What I think the notations mean
Advanced Project Instructions
https://transcription.si.edu/instructions-women-computers-workbooks Project Phaedra instructions
https://transcription.si.edu/advancedinstructions General Advanced Instructions (use Phaedra where conflict)
The IAU List of the 88 constellations and their abbreviations
Ian Ridpath
http://www.ianridpath.com/constellations1.html (Andromeda - Indus)
http://www.ianridpath.com/constellations2.html (Lacerta - Vulpecula)
Greek symbols, astronomical symbols, Roman numerals, Catalogue, Survey, Telescope
Obliquity Sky Eye
https://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/symbols.html
Biographical and other related items
American Philosophical Society, Annie Jump Cannon biography
https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/annie-jump-cannon
Center for Astrophysics, biography of Henrietta Swan Leavitt on the centennial of her death
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/remembering-astronomer-henrietta-swan-leavitt
Early observations of the Sixth Satellite of Jupiter (1908, E.C. Pickering, Annals of Harvard College Observatory, vol. 60, pp.33-44)
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1908AnHar..60...33P
- this includes a detailed description of plate studies at the time; Leavitt did a lot of the work
Harvard College Observatory Circular 74. "Variable Stars of Long Period." E.C. Pickering, Jan 1, 1904.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101075381069&seq=307
Snippet of the table from Circ 74, used by Cannon