Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations.
Pickering in the 1880s
This portrait was painted in 1911 by Sarah Gooll Putnam and is now part of the Harvard Art Museum.
Pickering at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910
Pickering and the Harvard Computers, standing in front of Building C at the Harvard College Observatory, 13 May 1913
William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories or astronomical observation stations, notably including Percival Lowell's Flagstaff Observatory. He led solar eclipse expeditions and studied craters on the Moon, and hypothesized that changes in the appearance of the crater Eratosthenes were due to "lunar insects". He spent much of the later part of his life at his private observatory in Jamaica.
Pickering in 1909