Stairway to the Stars: The Story of the World's Largest Observatory
Barry Parker
Language: English
Pages: 356
ISBN: 0738205788
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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STARS The Story of the World's Largest Observatory Barry Parker Drawings by Lori Scoffield PERSEUS P U B L I S H I N G Cambridge, Massachusetts Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data Parker, Barry R. Stairway to the stars • the story of the world's largsst obsarvatory / Barry Parker ; drawings by Lori Scoffield. p. cm. Includes bibliographica1 references and index. ISBN 0-306-44763-0 1. Astronomical observatories—Hawall—Mauna Kea—History. 2. Parker, Barry R, 3, Astronomers—United
volcanic cavity of Kilauea. The first white men arrived in 1778 when Captain Cook and his crew threw anchor on the shores of the Big Island. They were welcomed enthusiastically, but on a second visit a year later, fighting broke out and Cook was killed. Within a few years whaling boats began visiting the island, then came missionaries, and later entrepreneurs and adventurers. The first ascent of Mauna Kea by a white man was made in 1823 when a Yale-educated missionary from Connecticut, Joseph
telescopes, but the details have not been worked out yet. "We're just at the point of coming up with a strategy and a management plan for adaptive optics," said Wizinowich. "It's a hot topic right now and a lot of people have opinions on how it should be done." Although a committee has been set up at Keck, no firm decisions have been made. Simple adaptive optics devices are already in the system. Tilt corrections, for example, can be made. The infrared secondary 112 CHAPTERS mirror has a very
a good way of telling whether some of the objects here are young— bom in the gas cloud—or whether they are background objects seen through the cloud." He said he was able to conclude that GGD 27 was a young cluster with at least three very young stars in it. He went on to describe his second project to me, again pushing an infrared picture in my direction. "Until a few years ago this object was thought to be a plain old boring planetary nebula. A colleague of mine, however, found large jets
Robson. He has been at the center since 1992. Born in northern England, Robson's interest in astronomy, like Smith's, began when he was young. He would lie in bed at night looking out through the window in his room at the stars, wondering why they were arranged in such strange patterns. One day he saw an astronomy program on television narrated by Patrick Moore. Robson decided to write Moore, asking Mm about the patterns he was seeing; he described one that particularly intrigued him. Moore wrote
