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Harvard Observatory “Computers,” like Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Annie Jump Cannon, made the first all-sky catalog. Now, thousands of volunteers are digitizing their notebooks and observing logs, turning these old astronomical observations into something usable for researchers today.


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