S. C. B. Gascoigne, K. M. Proust, M. O. Robins

Creation Anglo-Austral Observa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An important 1990 history of the Anglo-Australian Telescope, which provides facilities for research in optical astronomy for scientists from Britain and Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521353960
• ISBN-10: 0521353963
• Artikelnr.: 29425390

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
1. The scientific background
2. The technical background
3. The campaign for a large telescope: aspirations and realities
4. An Anglo-Australian agreement
5. Site, dome and building
6. Optics and tube
7. Mounting, drive and control
8. Telescope or observatory?
9. The beginnings of the observatory
10. Commissioning
11. The UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring Observatory
12. Some achievements of the AAT
13. Political winds of change
14. Towards the next century
Appendices.