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Eyes on the Sky : (Record no. 118138)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780191053603
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780198734277
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC4706482
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System control number (OCoLC)962449750
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QB88.G734 2016
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 522.2/09
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Graham-Smith, Francis.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Eyes on the Sky :
Remainder of title A Spectrum of Telescopes.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Oxford :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Oxford University Press, Incorporated,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2016.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (252 pages)
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Carrier type term online resource
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover -- Eyes on the Sky: A Spectrum of Telescopes -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- 1: Galileo Opens the Sky -- The First Telescope -- The Moons of Jupiter -- The Next Moves: Kepler -- Gregory, Newton, and Herschel -- The New Windows -- 2: The Big Reflecting Telescopes -- Photography -- Splitting the Spectrum -- Mounting the Monsters -- Covering the Sky: the Palomar Schmidt -- Bigger and Better -- 3: New Ways to Build Big Telescopes -- The Altazimuth Mount and Computer Control -- Thin Mirrors -- Segmented Mirrors -- Sharpening the Image -- The Big Surveys -- The Next Generation -- 4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet Telescopes -- Photons and Waves -- Photons and Electrons -- Arrays and CCDs -- The Troublesome Atmosphere -- Telescopes for the Infrared -- VISTA: a Joint Venture -- Putting It All Together -- The Infrared Sky -- Shorter Wavelengths: the Ultraviolet -- 5: Into Space -- Rocket Science -- The Ultraviolet Sky -- The Hubble Space Telescope -- The James Webb Space Telescope -- IRAS, ISO, Spitzer, Akari, and WISE -- Herschel in Orbit -- Hipparcos and Gaia -- Hunting for Planets -- 6: X-Rays from Space -- The First Surprises -- Honeycombs, Pinholes, and Shadows -- X-Ray Mirrors -- Chandra and XMM-Newton -- The X-Ray Sky -- Swift -- X-Ray Prospects: ATHENA -- 7: Gamma Rays and Cosmic Rays -- Waves and Photons -- Gamma-Ray Bursts -- AGILE and the Fermi LAT -- Picking up the Pulses -- Cosmic Rays -- Air Showers -- Cherenkov Radiation: the Blue Glow -- The Fly´s Eye -- Sorting Out the Showers -- 8: The New Radio Window -- Radio from the Sky -- The First Steerable Dish -- Spin-Off from World War II -- The Big Dishes at Jodrell Bank -- The Big Dish at Parkes -- Bigger and Better Dishes -- Dishes Looking Upwards -- The Biggest Dish -- 9: Pairs and Arrays -- Michelson´s Interferometer.
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Formatted contents note Analysis and Synthesis -- The Cambridge One Mile Telescope -- The Very Large Array -- Longer and Longer Baselines -- Making the Connection -- Into Space with VLBI -- 10: Millimetre Waves and Spectral Lines -- The Hydrogen and Hydroxyl Lines -- More and More Molecules -- Millimetre-Wave Telescopes -- ALMA -- The Gravitational Lens -- Herschel and the Infrared -- 11: Opening the Cosmos -- The Distant Nebulae -- Further Back in Time -- The Discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background -- The Early Universe: Ripples in the Cosmos -- The Fine Structure -- Planck: the Supreme Cosmology Spacecraft -- Polarization -- The Theory of the Cosmos, and Two Puzzles -- The Young Universe Develops -- Where Next with Cosmology? -- 12: Then, Now, and Tomorrow -- The Major Telescopes Today -- Multibeam Synthesis -- Projects and Prospects -- The Square Kilometre Array -- Astronomy Transformed -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter10 -- Chapter11 -- Further Reading -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Astronomy is experiencing a golden age, with a new generation of innovative telescopes yielding a flood of information on the Universe. This book traces the development of telescopes from Galileo to the present day, and explains the basic principles of telescopes that operate in different parts of electromagnetic spectrum.
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Source of description note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Telescopes--History.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Graham-Smith, Francis
Title Eyes on the Sky
Place, publisher, and date of publication Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2016
International Standard Book Number 9780198734277
797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN)
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4706482">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4706482</a>
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