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26 Sep 1892
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First
post-reconstruction visitors logged in guest register. |
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31 Oct 1892
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Formal
reopening of Observatory. |
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Oct 1893
|
Weber & Co. of San Francisco
builds observers chair.
|
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1895
|
Mr.
William M. Pierson donates Pierson eclipse telescope to
Chabot Obseratory. |
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28 May 1896
|
Burckhalter
sails from San Francisco for Yokohama on S.S. Belgic for
total solar eclipse of 9 Aug 1896 (clouded out). |
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1897
|
Burckhalter
convinces Ex-mayor Dr. George C. Pardee to donate a duplicate
lens to that of the Pierson. This one was also made by Brashear.
Burckhalter made a new equatorial mount of novel design
to hold the two telescopes. In India the Pardee will be
used for normal shots, the Pierson with a radial gradient
device developed by Burckhalter. (Oakland Enquirer, 29 Dec.
1898.) |
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30 Oct 1897
|
Burckhalter
sails from San Francisco for Hong Kong on S.S. Belgic for
total solar eclipse of 22 January 1898 which he observed
from Jeur India. The trip was financed by William Pierson
of San Francisco. The only American parties to go were from
Chabot and Lick Observatories. |
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Aug 1899
|
Some
councilmen propose to pay CB with money from Chabot endowment
fund. |
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1899
|
Proposal to move Observatory to
west to make room for a library.
|
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28 May 1900
|
Total
Solar eclipse in Georgia. Chabot Observatory-Dolbeer Eclipse
Expedition goes to Siloam, Georgia where excellent photographs
were obtained. (Burckhalter left Chabot Observatory on 24
April, and stayed at Siloam, Georgia for 5 weeks.) |
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1900
|
Rear
of Observatory rebuilt and auditorium added. |
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24 Nov 1900
|
Burckhalter
gives account of eclipse expedition and his new method of
eclipse photography to the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. |
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20 Feb 1901
|
Opening
of Common School Assembly Hall (new auditorium for Chabot,
seats 570) lecture by W.W. Campbell. |
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Aug 1904
|
EGL
arrives in Oakland. |
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18 Apr 1906
|
San
Francisco Earthquake recorded at Chabot. |
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21 Apr 1906
|
Burckhalter
appointed to State Earthquake Investigation Committee by
Governor George C. Pardee (of Pardee eclipse camera fame). |
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09 Oct 1913
|
Date
on Rachel's (20-inch telescope) pier; significance unknown.
(CB, in a letter written a year later tells what is desired
on the side of the telescope. He gives this date.) |
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21 Oct 1913
|
CB
observes Jupiter without moons. |
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27 Oct 1913
|
Oakland
Board of Education approves concept of relocating the Observatory
and the purchase of a larger telescope. |
