Williamina Fleming

1857-1911; Brought back for Twitter🤪🔭☄️⭐️

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Using pictures to determine change over time I measured stars at each moment in time to see how its brightness varied!

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To determine a new variable star’s cycle, I spent upwards of two days inspecting past HCO photos of this area of sky.#2daysofhardwork

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GUESS WHAT!! I helped develop a common designation system for stars and catalogued thousands of stars and other astronomical phenomena!!

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When Pickering first hired me he had me do his particular research interest which was photometry or judging the comparative brightness of stars

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GET ON MY LEVEL! Even though is was sick I still traveled to a California conference in September 1910 and worked until I died from pneumonia #workuntilIdie #astronomyuntildeath

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Home life was “different from that of other officers of the University since all housekeeping cares rest on me, in addition to those of providing the means to meet their expenses” #hardlife #multitasking

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Who’s that good looking women standing in the center? Oh wait that’s me😉

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It was hard to be a women astronomer at the time but I still did it and advocated for women's rights!! Check out my article “A Field for Woman’s Work in Astronomy” in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics to see!! #WomensRights #girlpower #whoruntheworld

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At 19 I left everything behind to start a new life with my husband in Boston, Massachusetts!! #GoRedSoxs

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@CarolynSShoema1 Girl Power

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@CarolynSShoema1 RIP

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“Labor honestly, conscientiously, and steadfastly, and recognition and success must crown your efforts in the end.” By yours truly😜

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@EjnarHertzspr10 Okay I see you!!!

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When I was 7 my father died and my family fell onto hard times so I started working as a teacher’s assistant at 14 to help support #challenge

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Did you know that in 1857 I was born to Mary Walker and Robert Stevens!!

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Just published A Photographic Study of Variable Stars!! Go check it out!! #astronomyrules

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Looking back at 1899 when I was given the title of Curator of Astronomical Photographs #BeastMode

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DUDES!! The Astronomical Society of Mexico awarded me the Guadalupe Almendaro medal for my discovery of new stars!! (Shorty before my death) #wootwoot