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Celebrating the 150th Aniiversary of Henrietta Leavitt's Birthday!
This entertaining and enlightening play tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), the astronomer who provided the key to determining the size of the cosmos. In 1912, working at the Harvard College Observatory, she discovered that one could relate a star’s brightness cycle to its absolute magnitude. This was a valuable stepping stone for other scientists to later be able to measure the distance of stars, star clusters, and galaxies.
Leavitt, and other women with whom she worked, called “computers,” mapped the sky working from photographic plates since only men were permitted to look through the telescope at Harvard. She lived during an era of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them
This entertaining and enlightening play tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921), the astronomer who provided the key to determining the size of the cosmos. In 1912, working at the Harvard College Observatory, she discovered that one could relate a star’s brightness cycle to its absolute magnitude. This was a valuable stepping stone for other scientists to later be able to measure the distance of stars, star clusters, and galaxies.
Leavitt, and other women with whom she worked, called “computers,” mapped the sky working from photographic plates since only men were permitted to look through the telescope at Harvard. She lived during an era of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them
Age Guidance: 13
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
No show on Wed. Oct 3 add show on Sun., Oct. 7 at 7:30. A 2:00 show on Wed. Oct. 10 with no evening show
Performance Schedule:
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Director
Tom Byrn
Written by
Lauren Gunderson
