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"The Memory Palace", one of my favorite podcasts, does a touching ode to the women behind this operation. https://thememorypalace.us/400000-stars/ https://them

• eesmith 4y ago
  That's a different project. The podcast episode concerns Pickering and his group at the Harvard College Observatory, in the US. This operation was the Carte du Ciel. As the article says: > Although Pickering from Harvard was at the meeting, no American observatory chose to participate in the survey. The Americans thought a shallower, faster survey might be good enough, rather than the monumental work proposed in Paris, and they were suspicious of large, centrally organized projects.