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| ISBN: | 9781316842980
1316842983
9780521899932
0521899931
9781316842591
1316842592
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 9, 2016).
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| Summary: | This volume gives an historical overview of the development of professional optical and radio observatories from 1945 to today. It covers the environment in which these facilities were developed by organisations in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, often led by larger-than-life individuals, as well as exploring the financial and political factors that both constrained and encouraged progress. As ever more expensive optical facilities were built, they exploited new technologies to significantly improve their performance: CCDs, active and adaptive optics, and spun honeycomb and segmented mirrors. The second half of this volume turns to the parallel history of radio astronomy facilities throughout the world, finishing with the ALMA observatory in Chile. This is the ground-based companion to the author's previous work on space astronomy, New Cosmic Horizons (2001). It is written for both technical and non-technical readers interested in the modern history of astronomy and its observational facilities.
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| Other form: | Print version: Leverington, David, 1941- Observatories and telescopes of modern times. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9780521899932
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| Standard no.: | 40026744329
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