A strategy for ground-based optical and infrared astronomy /

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Corporate author / creator:National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.
Description:1 online resource (x, 36 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11181495
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Varying Form of Title:McCray report 1995
Other authors / contributors:McCray, Richard.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics.
ISBN:0309272807
9780309272803
Notes:Richard McCray, Chair, Panel on Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy.
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Summary:Presents the full text of "A Strategy for Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy," a report of the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Includes a preface and an executive summary. Examines the status of optical and infrared astronomy (OIR), instrumentation at independent observatories, and the future of OIR. Notes that the project was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Links to the home pages of the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA), the Space Studies Board (SSB), the NAS, and the NAP.