The telescope: its history, technology, and future

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Titel: The telescope : its history, technology, and future

Enthält: Preface -- 1. Thenaked-eye universe -- 2. Thedevelopment of the telescope -- 3.How a telescope works -- Imaging -- Refracting telescopes -- Reflecting telescopes -- 4. Theperfect telescope -- Diffraction and the perfect image -- Resolution limit -- 5.When good telescopes go bad -- Aberrations -- Field of view -- Air turbulence -- 6.Analysing the light -- Imaging devices - the camera -- Spectroscopy -- Photometry -- Polarimetry -- 7.Interferometry -- Interference - how light waves combine -- Michelson interferometer -- Michelson stellar interferometer -- Imaging interferometry -- Nulling interferometry -- 8.So you want to build an observatory? -- Making a mirror -- Site selection -- Mechanical engineering -- 9. TheHubble Space Telescope -- 10.Advanced telescope techniques -- Lightweighting -- Active optics -- Segmented primaries -- Adaptive optics -- Laser guide stars
11.Laser communications and remote sensing -- Laser communications -- Lidar -- 12.Surveillance -- Airborne surveillance -- Space-based surveillance -- Other surveillance methods -- Laser weapons -- 13.Non-traditional observatories -- Liquid mirror telescopes -- Solar telescopes -- Seeing the invisible -- Gravitational wave observatories -- 14.Key discoveries -- Thesolar system and Pluto -- Comet Halley -- Thefirst exo-solar planet -- Milky Way black hole -- Hubble ultra-deep field -- Hoag's object -- 15.Future telescopes -- Wide-field wonders -- Another pale blue dot -- Thebig boys -- One last word -- Appendix A : Some mathematical basics -- Appendix B : Electromagnetic radiation -- Appendix C : Getting your own telescope -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Beteiligte: Andersen, Geoff [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007

Umfang: 248 S.; zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9780691129792; 0691129797

RVK-Notation: UB 2475 : Allgemeines
US 1480 : Astronomische Instrumente
ZS 4560 : Fernrohre, Ferngläser

Schlagwörter: Fernrohr > Geschichte
Fernrohr > Geschichte

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Anmerkungen: First publ. 2006 in Australia and New Zealand under the title "Eye on the sky" by Exisle Publ

Beschreibung: A history of the telescope includes discussion of such related topics as the dark-adapted human eye, interferometry, adaptive optics, and remote sensing

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