| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 490 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Palomar Mountain Observatory -- The United States Optical Observatory -- From the Next Generation Telescope to Gemini and SOAR -- Competing primary mirror designs -- Active optics, adaptive optics and other technical innovations -- European Northern Observatory and Calar Alto -- European Southern Observatory -- Mauna Kea Observatory -- Australian Optical Observatories -- Mount Hopkins' Whipple Observatory and the MMT -- Carnegie Southern Observatory (Las Campanas) -- Mount Graham International Optical Observatory -- Modern Optical Interferometers -- Solar Observatories -- Australian Radio Observatories -- Cambridge Mullard Radio Observatory -- Jodrell Bank -- Early Radio Observatories away from the Australian-British Axis -- The American National Radio Astronomy Observatory -- Owens Valley and Mauana Kea -- Futher North and Central American Observatories -- Further European and Asian Radio Observatories -- ALMA and the South Pole |
| Summary |
This volume gives an historical overview of the development of professional optical and radio observatories from 1945 to today. It covers the environment in which these facilities were developed by organisations in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, often led by larger-than-life individuals, as well as exploring the financial and political factors that both constrained and encouraged progress. As ever more expensive optical facilities were built, they exploited new technologies to significantly improve their performance: CCDs, active and adaptive optics, and spun honeycomb and segmented mirrors. The second half of this volume turns to the parallel history of radio astronomy facilities throughout the world, finishing with the ALMA observatory in Chile. This is the ground-based companion to the author's previous work on space astronomy, New Cosmic Horizons (2001). It is written for both technical and non-technical readers interested in the modern history of astronomy and its observational facilities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 9, 2016) |
| SUBJECT |
Eidgenössische Sternwarte Zürich gnd |
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Astronomical observatories.
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Radio astronomy observatories.
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Observatories.
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Telescopes.
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Radio telescopes.
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Astronomy -- History -- 20th century
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Reflecting telescopes.
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observatories.
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NATURE -- Sky Observation.
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Reflecting telescopes
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Astronomical observatories
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Astronomy
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Observatories
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Radio astronomy observatories
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Radio telescopes
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Telescopes
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Astronomie
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Fernrohr
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Radioastronomie
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Radioteleskop
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Spiegelteleskop
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316842980 |
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1316842983 |
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9781316842591 |
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1316842592 |
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