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Smithsonian Transcribe-a-thon

Date: Nov 19, 2020 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Join a transcribe-a-thon with your bros! Transcribe important documents for the Smithsonian like playbills, research, and personal journals. This week, we will be returning to Project PHaEDRA! "At Harvard College Observatory (now the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), women computers studied glass plate photographs of the night sky. Here they catalogued stars, identifying variables, interpreting stellar spectra, counting galaxies, and measuring the vast distances in space. Several of them made game-changing discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics. In these books, follow the work of Williamina Fleming who discovered over 310 variable stars as well as discovering the first white dwarf." Instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mhNKPdegpHFXOIXjlXQOeTJJ30bRbskN2g9I_JscZQA/edit?usp=sharing ****PLEASE NOTE- this collection has SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO USE*** Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/94507909871 Meeting ID: 945 0790 9871 Passcode: betabeta Website: https://transcription.si.edu/project/26753 minimum 3 people :)