Talk:Annie Jump Cannon

message: Most other web sources suggest the starting pay when female Harvard computers were first hired was 25 cents and up. As the titles of the most talented computers tended to evolve (for example, Leavitt eventually became "Director of photometry") their pay would certainly have gone up as well. Also pay rates would have risen over time. So I'm skeptical of the claim in the article that "at this time the women doing this groundbreaking work at the Harvard Observatory were paid 25 cents a day." At a minimum, this claim needs a good source. I'd change it, but I myself don't have a good source for the actual salaries at that time. SarahLawrence Scott (talk) 20:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: To put this into perspective, a 40-hour week at $0.25/hr comes to $10/week. That was a livable wage circa 1900, roughly equal to $290 today. Considering that people often worked more than 40hrs/week back then, the ladies at Harvard made a comfortable living.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.32 (talk) 20:22, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 25 cents a day?

message: I read most of AJC's diaries and letters at the Harvard Archive in spring 2012 and could find no evidence of hearing loss resulting from cold weather during AJC's under-graduate study at Wellesley. She makes several references to audible experiences right through her 20's. In fact, she never mentions her own hearing loss at all, as far as I could discover. A post-humous letter of remembrance by a colleague from her postgraduate time at Wellesley/Radcliffe talks about her hearing degrading badly at that time, so in her early 30's. Can anyone shed more light on this? What, if any, is the evidence for hearing loss, or serious illness during AJC's undergrad studies?
I also read her travel journal for her 1892 trip round Europe. This does not appear to have been linked particularly to a solar eclipse. She did photograph the transit of Venus in 1882, in America. The solar eclipse of 1892 would not have been visible from Spain, according to the NASA site.
Grange (talk) 06:51, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In the "Sisters of the Sun" episode of the "Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey" TV show they say she lost her hearing during a bout of Scarlet Fever when she was a young woman. Sam Tomato (talk) 16:39, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference or source for hearing loss

message: *"She had made a trip to Europe in 1892 to photograph the solar eclipse"
As noted in above talk there was no Eclipse in Europe in 1892, see List of solar eclipses in the 19th century. There was the Solar eclipse of April 16, 1893 that went into Africa (partial in Spain). I am assuming this is a mistake added to the article in 2004 and has since been copied into all the other articles (and even the book) that mentions it. Her school bio at http://academics.wellesley.edu/Astronomy/Annie/history.html does not mention any eclipse. Noaccountaccount (talk) 01:50, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Additional: This claim shows up in an obit in the Harvard College Observatory (Reprints, Volumes 201-250) (1941?) "Cannon.... trip... observe an eclipse of the sun in Spain in 1892". Cannon did travel and travel to eclipses (1923 keeps coming up). Spain / total eclipse of the Sun (18 July 1860) / stellar classification all link up  up in a connection: Angelo Secchi, he developed a system previous to Cannon's. Maybe the two facts got mixed up in the obit? Noaccountaccount (talk) 17:07, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Solar Eclipse" claim keeps getting restored . There was no eclipse in Europe during her summer 1892 trip so a reference to an 1893 eclipse does not verify anything (not to mention its WP:SYNTH). Also stuff just seems to be made up, you don't take eclipse pictures with a box camera. According to User:Captainmoll above primary sources (Cannon's travel journals) do not mention any eclipse. I think the eclipse story is a mistake in her 1941 obit. Noaccountaccount (talk) 22:48, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eclipse in 1892? 

message: It seems unverifiable that she never complained (unless this is a reference to formal complaints - in this case the language should reflect that). The stated link between her never complaining and doing what she was told leading to universal respect would also be difficult to prove. 184.23.18.72 (talk) 09:02, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: True (what you say), but true (what is written, given the culture of the day.) It is appropriate in the article, in my opinion. -- AstroU (talk) 12:27, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  never complained, did what she was told, gained respect 

message: The women in astronomy were amazing! And they met together for some of their work. We watched COSMOS the National Geographic TV series and learned of their amazing collaborative work. Is this mentioned? -- AstroU (talk) 12:30, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: For 67 days, you can see the rerun of "Sisters of the Sun" Season: 1 Episode: 8 at cosmosontv.com/watch/236611651828   -- AstroU (talk) 21:43, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The women in Astronomy ! 

message: She was mentioned in the "Sisters of the Sun" episode of the Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey show. One of the things they said is that she cataloged more than a quarter of a million stars. Sam Tomato (talk) 16:35, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather, half a million stars, as the article currently says: "Cannon's determination and hard work paid off. She classified more stars in a lifetime than anyone else, with a total of around 500,000 stars. She also discovered 300 variable stars, five novas, and one spectroscopic binary, creating a bibliography that included about 200,000 references" -- AstroU (talk) 23:13, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey 

message: Everyone's browser today, going into a Google-search, displays a scripted 'Google' logo in front of stars, and when you click to animate, comes to this Wikipedia page.  Very nice!  It celebrates her 151st birthday (today).  Annie Jump Cannon was one of the greatest modern-day astronomers!  I was born rather close to the time she passed over, and that shows how close we are to pioneer heritage. Thank You, Google screen creators. -- Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 14:15, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Google people did a great job and it is the first I've seen the start up Google screen go to a Wikipedia page. -- AstroU (talk) 23:16, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highlight of the Google start screen today 

message: From what I find (I could be way off.) Her mother had 3 children with Wilson Cannon, Annie the eldest and two sons.  Annie also had several half sisters, and at least one half brother.  Start here....  http://www.nndb.com/people/466/000164971/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.37.89.199 (talk) 17:41, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Genealogy

message: There are number of works by her that could be listed in a bibliography. A bunch might be online since anything pre-1923 should be in the public domain.
*Results for 'Annie Jump Cannon' > 'Annie Jump Cannon' [WorldCat.org]
*"Annie Jump Cannon" - Google Scholar
Peaceray (talk) 23:53, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have started Draft:Annie Jump Cannon bibliography. Right now, what is in Annie Jump Cannon#bibliography is only the online works from the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. She has over twice that listed in WorldCat. Peaceray (talk) 06:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography? 

message: Now that I have started Annie Jump Cannon's bibliography, I have realized that she wrote too much to be effectively be contained within the article. At this point, I plan to add most of those available on line to the Bibliographic section, but then to eventually convert it to its own article. Annie Jump Cannon was prolific. Perhaps because she was deaf, she then may have communicated more via writing.
In addition to the online & offline star inventories, Cannon also wrote a number of biographies or obituaries. Although they are cataloged in Worldcat, none of them are listed as online. However, a number of them appear to be articles, & may be available in the online archives of the journals in which they appear.
After I add a sufficient number of citations to the bibliography, I will copy them into a Draft:Annie Jump Cannon bibliography so other editors as well as myself may work on expanding it as well. I invite interested editors to contact me to coordinate.
Peaceray (talk) 19:08, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I have started Draft:Annie Jump Cannon bibliography. Right now, what is in Annie Jump Cannon#bibliography is only the online works from the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. She has over twice that listed in WorldCat. Peaceray (talk) 06:41, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Annie Jump Cannon bibliography