A Visitors Guide To The Kitt Peak Observatories

Author : Leslie Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521006521
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Visitor's Guide to the Kitt Peak Observatories written by Leslie Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the Kitt Peak telescopes.

Author : Douglas Isbell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536686
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Observatories of the Southwest written by Douglas Isbell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its clear skies and low humidity, the southwestern United States is an astronomer’s paradise where observatories like Kitt Peak have redefined the art of skywatching. The region is unique in its loose federation of like-minded research outposts and in the quantity and diversity of its observatories—places captured in this unique guidebook. Douglas Isbell and Stephen Strom, both intimately involved in southwestern astronomy, have written a practical guide to the major observatories of the region for those eager to learn what modern telescopes are doing, to understand the role each of these often quirky places has played in advancing our understanding of the cosmos, and hopefully to visit and see the tools of the astronomer up close. For each observatory, the authors describe its history, highlights of its contributions to astronomy—with an emphasis on recent results—and information for visitors. Also included are wide-ranging interviews with astronomers closely associated with each site. Observatories covered range from McDonald in Texas to Palomar in California, with significant outposts in between: Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson, the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, and the Whipple Observatory outside Amado; and New Mexico’s Very Large Array near Socorro and Sacramento Peak close to Sunspot. In addition to describing these established institutions, they also take a look ahead to the most powerful ground-based telescope in the world just beginning to operate at full power on Mount Graham in Safford, Arizona. With more than three dozen illustrations, Observatories of the Southwest is accessible to amateur astronomers, tourists, students, and teachers—anyone fascinated with the contributions that astronomy has made to deepening our understanding of humanity’s place in the universe, whether exploring the solar system from Lowell Observatory or studying the birth of stars using the army of giant radio telescopes at the Very Large Array. This book aims to inspire visits to these sites by illuminating the major scientific questions being pursued every clear night beneath the dark skies of the Southwest and the amazing machinery that makes these pursuits possible.

Author : Duane S. Nickell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549183
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidebook for the Scientific Traveler written by Duane S. Nickell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kitt Peak National Observatory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
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Author : David Leverington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899931
Total Pages : 503 pages
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Download or read book Observatories and Telescopes of Modern Times written by David Leverington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radio Observatory and Telescope Index -- General Index

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756695546
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Author : Boye De Mente
Publisher : Cultural-Insight Books
ISBN 13 : 0914778145
Total Pages : 161 pages
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Author : Kitt Peak National Observatory
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Report written by Kitt Peak National Observatory and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Author : National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book User's Manual for the NRAO 12 M Millimeter-wave Telescope, Kitt Peak, Arizona written by National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: