Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory

Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory

The Kenwood Astrophysical Observatory was the personal observatory of George Ellery Hale, constructed by his father, William E. Hale, in 1890 at the family home in the Kenwood section of Chicago. It was here that the spectroheliograph, which Hale had invented while attending MIT, was first put to practical use; and it was here that Hale established the "Astrophysical Journal". Kenwood's principal instrument was a twelve inch refractor which was used in conjunction with a Rowland grating as part of the spectroheliograph. Hale hired Ferdinand Ellerman as an assistant; years later, the two would work together again at the Mount Wilson Observatory.

Hale's work attracted the attention of many in the astronomical community, and when Yerkes Observatory was established in 1897, the Kenwood instruments were donated to the University of Chicago and moved to the Yerkes facility.

References

*cite journal
title = Obituary Notices: Associates:- Hale, George Ellery
journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
volume = 99
issue = 1
pages = 323–324
date = November 1938
url = http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/MNRAS/0099/0000323.000.html?high=470d1e2df519895
accessdate = 2008-02-05
*cite web
url = http://www.mtwilson.edu/his/art/g1a1.php
title = History of Mount Wilson Observatory
first = Mike
last = Simmons
date = 1983
accessdate = 2008-02-05
*cite journal
title = Yerkes Observatory: A century of stellar science
journal = University of Chicago Chronicle
first = Diana
last = Steele
volume = 16
issue = 13
date = March 20, 1997
url = http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970320/yerkes.shtml
accessdate = 2008-02-05


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