One of my articles is featured as a guest blog on the Society of American Archivists’ blog. “Digitizing the Stars: Harvard University’s Glass Plate Collection” is about the early astronomical photographic techniques, the female computers who studied them, and what the Harvard Observatory is doing to bring all that data into the digital age.
In honor of the truly awesome total solar eclipse that I so happen to have been in the path of totality for, let’s take a quick look at how people react to this astronomical phenomenon. Whether you’re fantasy or science fiction, the stars tend… Continue Reading “Eclipse!”