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

The Creation of the Anglo-Australian Observatory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521020190
• ISBN-10: 0521020190
• Artikelnr.: 22211022

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.