Do you know what shooting stars are?

 

Do you know : A series of 50 (Wills's Cigarettes)

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ca800890-c54f-012f-7a92-58d385a7bc34?canvasIndex=0 

Moon Jupiter Venus II

 

Got Jupiter (top), Venus (middle), and the Moon (bottom obviously). All together tonight, I love how it came out. pic.twitter.com/rFFo6d3dfz

— Jeremy Majoue (@JeremyMajoue) February 22, 2023

Moon Jupiter Venus

 

Tried to get it. Didn't go so well pic.twitter.com/feXtuPPOTJ

— Jeremy Majoue (@JeremyMajoue) February 23, 2023

[Telescope built in the Newtonian configuration with one axis of mount polar-aligned for tracking the sky]

 

Feb. 1936. Harris & Ewing.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882124/

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882125/

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882126/

Telescope at the United States Naval Observatory, 3450 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

 

c1904. Waldon Fawcett. 

https://www.loc.gov/item/89714236/

[Using a street telescope, a newsboy glimpses Halley's Comet, which is in the headlines of the papers he is selling]

 

1910.

https://www.loc.gov/item/97506817/

Josephus Daniels on U.S.S. Wyoming, looking through telescope

 

1910-26.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016825835/

[Telescope]

 

1925.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016894361/

MAN AT TELESCOPE

 

1916-19.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2016854431/

Nabli︠u︡denīe solnechnago zatmi︠e︡nīi︠a︡ 1/I 1907

 

Observing a solar eclipse on January 1, 1907, near the Cherniaevo Station in the Tian-Shan mountains above the Saliuktin mines. Golodnaia Steppe.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018680267/

Tennessee Participation - Alvin York looking into Telescope at Time & Space Building

 

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) (Creator)

1935-45.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5e66b3e8-b7bc-d471-e040-e00a180654d7

Early reflecting telescope.

 

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-4742-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Moon

 

My black cat Archie Goodwin was sitting on the bench during the eclipse.

[Phase of the moon taken March 1851]

 

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891, photographer

[1851 March, printed 1853]

-  Moon--1850-1860

https://www.loc.gov/item/2009632011/

[Groups of stars]

 

1750 engraving.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2003655475/

New York City views. Times Square, the telescope

 

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018722301/

Nautical Astrolabe.

 

- This nautical astrolabe is thought to be among the earliest surviving nautical astrolabes and dates from about 1500-1520. Most nautical astrolabes had a carved mater (graduated circular element), unlike the solid and compact instrument shown here, which bears a resemblance to the astrolabes of Diogo Ribeiro (died 1533), a Portuguese cartographer and inventor who spent most of his life in Spain. The purpose of nautical astrolabes was to measure the altitude of the sun or a star above the horizon. Navigators could determine a ship's latitude by knowing the distance from the celestial equator of the sun, the polestar, or other star. This instrument is made of thick heavy bronze. Its weight would have kept it vertical despite a ship's motion in rough seas and heavy weather when it was hung from a tripod or using a plummet hanging from the axis. The graduated marks helped to hold it steady and the mobile guide on its face was pointed to the body whose height was to be measured, with the zero degree mark matching the horizon. This astrolabe is in the collections of the Christopher Columbus House Museum, in Gran Canaria.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670659/

[Notable comets of the period 1577-1652]

 

Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687, engraver

1668.

https://www.loc.gov/item/97506766/

Halley's Comet in 1835, and other comets seen during the last century and this

 

1910. Notable comets of the period 1811 to 1910.

https://www.loc.gov/item/97506764/

Atlantic [Monthly] for May.

 

1895.

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-fcc0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99