Eyes on the sky: a spectrum of telescopes

✍ Scribed by Francis Graham-Smith

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Astronomy 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.

Abstract:

Astronomy 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. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
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 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 Chandra 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 Flyś 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
Michelsonś Interferometer
Analysis and Synthesis The 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 The 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

✦ Subjects

Telescopes;History.;NATURE / Sky Observation;Telescopes.;Telescopes;History.