"The Women Who Measured the Stars"

Williamina Flemming - abandoned by her new husband just months after arriving in Boston, USA from Dundee. Pregnant and alone she rose to become one of the most famed female astronomers of the early 20th century and the first female American citizen to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society. Annie Jump Cannon - developed the classification of Stars still in use today - the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate of science from Oxford University. Henrietta Leavitt - her work paved the way for Edwin Hubble to determine the size of the Universe.

Their stories plus those of a host of other female astronomers hired by Charles Edward Pickering between 1880 and 1919 give. a remarkable insight on the determination by these women to succeed