1. Nantucket's heavenly legacy:

2. Maria Mitchell discovers a comet

3. Cobblestone streets, brick mansions

4. Whaling capital of the world

5. Stately homes with rooftop lookouts

6. Nineteenth Century Nantucket*

7. A Place in the History of Astronomy

8. Sextant

9. Telescope

10. Familiar tools of navigation*

11. Maria Mitchell

12. Born 1818

13. By age 12

14. Familiar with these tools

15. Passionate sky-watcher

16. Fateful Night: Oct. 1, 1847

17. Rooftop telescope

18. A fuzzy blob above the North Star

19. The Nantucket comet

20. First comet found by U.S. citizen

21. First comet found by a woman

22. Accolades and Awards

23. King of Denmark

24. Gold medal

25. Smithsonian

26. $100 prize

27. American Academy of Arts and Sciences

28. First woman elected

29. Vassar College, 1865

30. First female astronomy professor in the U.S.

31. Other Notable Activities

32. Solar eclipses

33. Lead expeditions

34. Fund-raising

35. Vassar Observatory

36. Observation

37. Great Comet of 1882

38. Womens’ rights

39. Salary equal to younger male professors

40. Commemorating Maria Mitchell

41. Preserved childhood home

42. Maria Mitchell Association

43. Encourages natural sciences

44. Summer student internships

45. Promising students conduct experiments

46. Astronomy, biology, earth science

47. On Nantucket Island

48. Original telescope she used

49. The small telescope that Mitchell used to discover the Nantucket comet is now mounted in her childhood home on Vestal Street, across from the headquarters of the Maria Mitchell Association