New prospects for astronomy
作者:
F.Graham Smith,
期刊:
Contemporary Physics
(Taylor Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 5
页码: 533-544
ISSN:0010-7514
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1080/00107518108231549
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Astronomers in Britain have until very recently found it hard to obtain observing time on large optical telescopes. The success of observational X-ray and radio astronomy has revealed an urgent need for first-class telescopes on excellent sites. That need is now being met in Australia and at the new observatory on the island of La Palma, where the Royal Greenwich Observatory is providing three telescopes for the Science Research Council. The largest of these, 4.2m in diameter, is to be named the William Herschel Telescope in commemoration of the great telescope builder and observer.
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