Palomar Mountain

Author : Brad Bailey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738570013
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palomar Mountain written by Brad Bailey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising 6,140 feet into the sky, Palomar Mountain is one of the highest peaks in San Diego County. It is best known as the location for the iconic Palomar Observatory and its giant 200-inch Hale telescope. But since the mid-1800s, this mile-high forested oasis in the Southern California desert has also been a haven to rustlers, ranchers, and recluses, as well as practitioners of high science and promoters of extraterrestrials. Early Luiseño Indians were the mountain's first inhabitants, and ever since then, it has been a special place with a magical attraction to many looking for inspiration and solitude. Today Palomar Mountain is home to a small, thriving community with an eclectic mix of about 300 citizens, some of whom are descendants from the original 19th-century pioneer families.

Author : Brad Bailey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738570099
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palomar Mountain written by Brad Bailey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Schweizer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044293
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Odyssey written by Linda Schweizer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From newborn galaxies to icy worlds and blazing quasars, a behind-the-scenes story of how Palomar Observatory astronomers unveiled our complex universe. Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of the universe, and much more. In Cosmic Odyssey, astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universe. Palomar was the Apollo mission of its era. The first images from the 200-inch George Ellery Hale telescope, commissioned in 1948 as the world's largest, generated as much excitement as images from the moon in 1969 and from the Hubble Space Telescope more recently. So far, Palomar's “Big Eye” and three other telescopes have yielded more than 75,000 telescope-nights of precious data. Schweizer takes readers behind the scenes of scientific discovery, mapping the often chaotic process of detours, dead ends, and serendipitous leaps of insight. Although her focus is on Palomar, she follows threads of discovery across the world to other teams and observatories. Based on more than one hundred interviews and enhanced by research in scientific journals, her account paints a fascinating picture of how discrete insights acquired over decades by researchers in a global community cascade, collide, and finally coalesce into the discoveries we come to accept as facts.

Author : Marion Floyd Beckler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palomar Mountain, Past and Present written by Marion Floyd Beckler and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Florence
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062105787
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Machine written by Ronald Florence and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Author : Mary Camper-Titsingh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615348599
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Kow-Towed written by Mary Camper-Titsingh and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical fiction written by a descendent of the biographical subject. She visited Japan, China, India, Capetown, the Netherlands, England, and France to follow the footsteps of her famous ancestor.

Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385531109
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming written by Mike Brown and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters—all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about. A heartfelt and personal journey filled with both humor and drama, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming is the book for anyone, young or old, who has ever imagined exploring the universe—and who among us hasn’t?

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 440 pages
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