Instrumentation in Astronomy VI
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Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Total Pages | : 460 |
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Author | : David Livingstone Crawford |
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Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : David Livingstone Crawford |
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Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Astronomical instruments |
ISBN | : 9780892526628 |
Author | : D. L. Crawford |
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Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : C.M. Humphries |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400977875 |
Interest world-wide in the provision of new observational astro nomical facilities in the form of ground-based optical telescopes of large aperture has never been higher than exists at present. The benefits to be gained from increased aperture size, however, are only utilised effectively if efficient instrumentation is also available. There have been significant improvements recently in this area, part icularly in detector technology and data handling as well as in optical design, so that systems which are currently being developed have the capability of being vastly more powerful in terms of the efficient use of photons than those which existed only 5 years ago. The rationale for the decision by Commission 9 of the International Astronomical Union to hold IAU Colloquium 67, therefore, was to obtain reports on these developments with the emphasis placed upon overall efficiency of the complete observational system - from telescope aperture right through to detector output. A fitting venue for the meeting was the site of the 6 metre BTA (Bolshoi Azimuth Telescope) at Zelenchukskaya in the Caucasus mount ains, USSR. The BTA is operated by the Special Astrophysical Observatory located at Nizhnij Arkhyz, a few kilometres from the telescope itself.
Author | : Christopher J. Evans |
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Release | : 2016 |
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ISBN | : 9781510601963 |
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Astronomical instruments |
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Author | : Lloyd B. Robinson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461238803 |
Historically, the discovery of tools, or evidence that tools have been used, has been taken as proof of human activity; certainly the invention and spread of new tools has been a critical marker of human progress and has increased our ability to observe, measure, and understand the physical world. In astronomy the tools are telescopes and the optical and electronic instruments that support them. The use of the telescope by Galileo marked the beginning of a new and productive way to study and understand the universe in which we live. The effects of this new tool on what we can see, and how we see ourselves, are well known. However, after almost four centuries of developing ever more sensitive and subtle instruments as tools for astronomy, it might have been expected that only a few minor improvements would remain to be made, or that possibly the law of diminishing returns would have taken effect. On the contrary, the new instruments and ideas for new instruments described in this book make it clear that the rate of progress has not diminished, and that this subject is still as exciting and productive as ever. Instrumentation for Ground-Based Optical Astronomy was chosen as the theme for the Ninth Santa Cruz Summer Workshop in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Author | : Donald H. Menzel |
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Release | : 1974 |
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