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Observatories and telescopes of modern times : ground-based optical and radio astronomy facilities since 1945 /
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, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.