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The talk is techie, but the gizmos glorious.--David Elliott"San Diego Union-Tribune" (11/27/2005)
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This is an in-depth tour of the world's 57 leading observatories in the USA, Europe, Chile, Australia, India, Japan, and outer space. In addition, the book includes the locations of the world's 100 largest observatories. The book opens with a fascinating history of the telescope and observatories. History's leading astronomers - Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, George Hale, Edwin Hubble - were directly involved in the creation and development of the telescopes and observatory technology. The first part of the book covers 36 Earth-based observatories: their history, mission, type of telescope and other observatory equipment, and the significant discoveries made there. The second part features 10 space-based observatories including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Telescope. The third part covers 11 observatories of the future including both Earth-based and space-based telescopes. This book includes comprehensive profiles of the 57 most important observatories in the world, including 10 space-based telescopes. It is illustrated in full colour, with 200 colour photographs and maps.
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A "coffee table" book for lovers of big telescopes, 15 Jan 2006
By Ursiform - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Great Observatories of the World (Hardcover)
This book is an indulgence for those of us fascinated by big telescopes. It includes short discussions of each of the world's most important observatories, with brief technical interludes on topics like spectroscopy and adaptive optics. But this is not a book to read, it is a book to browse through, look at the pictures, and sample the text. The text certainly has its errors, such as substituting "millions" for "billions" in comparing the cost of space telescopes, and placing the date of the 3m Shane telescope as 1979 (it was competed in 1959 and renamed after Shane in 1977.) But we can overlook errors like this in a book designed for voyeurs. If big telescopes turn you on and you have a few extra dollars available, you'll probably like this book!
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Great pictures and overall descriptions; lots of numeric errors, 10 Jun 2007
By Luis F. Stevens "Astrodudes" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Great Observatories of the World (Hardcover)
This book is fun to read, and a lot can be learned from it, but beware of the numeric errors: do not trust dates, sizes, distances. Common errors include: billion sometimes means 10^9 and sometimes 10^12, distances to galaxies are completely wrong (e.g. 10 light years to M82), use of thousand instead of thousandths, and multiple others.
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Great Observatories, So-so Photos, 20 April 2011
By mr-peabody - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Great Observatories of the World (Hardcover)
Obviously no book that is only 240 pages long, and mostly photographs at that, can include all of the important observatories of the world. It is inevitable that some favorites will be omitted. But it is disappointing that more care was not taken with the photographs -- after all, this really is mostly a coffee-table picture book. Many of the photos are soft, and moreover suffer from shallow depth-of-field... critical parts of the photo are not even in focus.
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