Astronomy Principles and Practice Fourth Edition.pdf

452 Web sites
• W 20.5—www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/
Information about the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope is provided.
• W 20.6—www.aao.gov.au/
The site of the Anglo-Australian Observatory—includes the 3.9 m AAT and the 1.2 m UK
Schmidt.
• W 20.7—www.ast.cam.ac.uk/∼dwe/SRF/camc.html
A route into the site of The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope.
• W 21.1—www.atnf.csiro.au/SKA/
This site gives details of the plans for the development of the world’s most sensitive radio
telescope—The Square Kilometre Array.
• W 21.2—info.gb.nrao.edu/GBT/
The site of the National Radio Observatory (USA) with descriptions of the new Green Bank
Telescope in West Virginia.
• W 21.3—www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/ryle/
This site describes the operation of the Ryle Telescope (RT) in Cambridge.
• W 21.4—www.stsci.edu/astroweb/cat-radio.html
Most of the world’s radio telescope facilities are listed with their links together with other useful
sites related to radio wavelength observations.
• W 23.1—chandra.harvard.edu/
The site of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center.
• W 23.2—sci.esa.int/xmm/
The European Space Agency (ESA) site describing the XMM-Newton x-ray telescope.
• —www.ing.iac.es/
The site for the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes—includes the 4.2 m WHT, the 2.5 m INT and
the 1.0 m JKT.
• —www.jach/hawaii.edu/
Joint Astronomy Center with telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii.
Adding ‘JACpublic/UKIRT’ to the address provides information about the United Kingdom Infra-
Red Telescope, the World’s largest telescope devoted to IR astronomy.
• —www.eso.org/
The site of The European Southern Observatory operating telescopes in the southern hemisphere.
Adding ‘projects/vlt/’ to the address provides information about ESO’s four 8·2 m telescopes
operating in concert.
Adding ‘projects/owl/’ to the address provides information on the OverWhelmingly Large
Telescope or OWL Project.
• —www.subaru.naoj.org/
The site of Japan’s 8·2 m optical–infrared telescope.
• —www.astro.lu.se/∼torben/
The Swedish Lund Observatory site. Clicking on ‘Euro 50’ provides information on Sweden’s
proposed 50 m telescope.
• —celt.ucolick.org/
The site of the University of California Lick Observatory providing information on CELT (The
California Extremely Large Telescope).
• www.aura-nio.noao.edu/
AURA—New Initiatives Office—details of the 30 m Giant Segmented Telescope are provided.
• www.noao.edu/
US National Optical Astronomy Observatory—an excellent site for pictures of telescopes and
celestial objects.