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082	0		_a522.2/09
100	1		_aGraham-Smith, Francis.
245	1	0	_aEyes on the Sky : _bA Spectrum of Telescopes.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, Incorporated, _c2016.
264		4	_c©2016.
300			_a1 online resource (252 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- 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.
505	8		_aAnalysis 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			_aAstronomy 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aTelescopes--History.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aGraham-Smith, Francis _tEyes on the Sky _dOxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2016 _z9780198734277
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4706482 _zClick to View
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