The life story of an infrared telescope. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John K. Davies.
• Authors: Davies, John Keith
• Contents: Conception -- Design and Planning -- The Project Advances -- To Hawaii -- Making It Work.- Early Operations 1980-1981 -- Consolidation 1982-1985 -- IRCAM:The beginning of the Array Revolution -- Cooled grating Spectrographs -- Changes at the Top -- Upgrading the telescope for the 21st century -- Restructuring (1995) -- ORAC It pipes, therefore it is. 1996-2000 -- Michelle (95-2004) -- Departures 2000-2002 -- Flexible Scheduling and the OMP 2001-2003 -- UIST 2000-2009 -- The new era of Wide-field Astronomy at UKIRT -- Into A Third decade.- UKIRT under threat -- Battle for Survival -- The Axe Falls -- Epilogue.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, color illustrations
• Subjects: 522/.683; Physics; Infrared telescopes; NATURE -- Sky Observation; Infrared telescopes; Science -- Physics; Science -- Astronomy; History of science; Popular astronomy & space; Astronomy; Astronomy, space & time; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319235790; 3319235796; 3319235788; 9783319235783
• Related ISBNs: 9783319235783
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed February 16, 2016).
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