LEADER 04438nam 2200529 450 001 9910465307003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-105360-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000747426 035 $a(EBL)4706482 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4706482 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4706482 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11274905 035 $a(OCoLC)962449750 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000747426 100 $a20161013h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEyes on the sky $ea spectrum of telescopes /$fFrancis Graham-Smith 210 1$aOxford, England :$cOxford University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-105361-9 311 $a0-19-873427-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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 327 $a4: Stretching the Spectrum: Infrared and Ultraviolet TelescopesPhotons 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 327 $aChandra and XMM-NewtonThe 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 Flys? 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; Michelsons? Interferometer; Analysis and Synthesis 327 $aThe Cambridge One Mile TelescopeThe 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 327 $aThe Young Universe DevelopsWhere 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 330 $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. 606 $aTelescopes$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTelescopes$xHistory. 676 $a522.2/09 700 $aGraham-Smith$b Francis$f1923-$052808 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465307003321 996 $aEyes on the sky$92044722 997 $aUNINA