Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- South Yard
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Location of the photograph is unknown, but it is possibly taken in Pasadena, California.
- Summary
- A Baker-Nunn Schmidt camera used by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to observe and photograph stars and satellites. A man, likely Karl Henize, stands beside the camera gazing skyward and another man stands to the right at an instrument panel.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 52, Folder 14
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1960
- Standard number
- 82-3366
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Object
- Person, candid
- Physical description
- Color: Color; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Object; Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Instruments
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Observatories
- Super-Schmidt Camera
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Astronomy
- Astrophysics
- Photography--Equipment and supplies
- Record ID
- siris_sic_7550
