1. Telescopes World Tour 2005, continued…

2. (1888) Near San Jose, CA James Lick made money in real estate Lick telescope a real pyramid… 36-inch Lick Obs.

3. Astronomy and Business Hale 200”Hooker 100” Keck 10-meter(s) Hobby -Eberly (UT-A) Lord Rosse Soviet 6-meter Lick 36- inch Yerkes 40-inch

4. (1897) Charles Yerkes made $ in street cars (rails still used) Yerkes 40-inch

5. Newton’s reflector

6. Located off Blue Ridge Parkway ASU’s Dark Sky Observatory

7. Lowe’s House Observers’ Quarters

8. 18-inch Telescope’s dome (1981)

9. Instrumentation (little visual use) 18-inch Telescope

10. Photometers

11. Spectrograph CCD camera Instrumentation

12. CCD = Charge-coupled device

13. Radio Astronomy Telescope (4.7-meter )

14. Weather station WebCams Weather Station

15. 16-inch Automatic Telescope’s dome

16. Automatic telescope

17. Third dome: 16-inch now at DSO – returns to campus later…

18. Students setting up and observing at the 16-inch

19. What’s wrong with this?

20. 32-inch Telescope’s Dome and Visitor Center

21. CCD camera Fork mount Warm room 32-inch Telescope

22. Typical observing … In the Warm Room…

24. CCD Camera and filter wheel

25. Slit Grating Collimating lens Camera lens CCD camera Light from telescope Spectrograph

26. William Herschel’s 48-inch Metal mirror c.1800 Some historical perspective…

27. M51—the Whirlpool Galaxy Lord Rosse’s 72-inch

28. Hooker the Lowes of past 1917 Yoke mount blocks North Celestial Pole Still in use in spite of light pollution … 100-inch Hooker Telescope

29. … lights of LA, 1908 and …

30. Lights today … more on “light pollution” later.

31. 4 th “largest in the world” built by Hale (40” Yerkes, 60-in and 100” Mt. Wilson) Split yoke allows access to NCP Funded by Carnegie Institution—Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in steel, his money lives on today A very difficult project—technology all new Why larger apertures? 200-inch Hale Telescope at Mt. Palomar

32. Schmidt Telescope Used to photograph the whole sky in the Palomar Sky Survey (co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society). All of sky available online at the Space Telescope Science Institute as the “STScI Digitized Sky Survey” (link on WebCT Class Web Links page)(link on WebCT Class Web Links page)

33. Has been used for most of the newly discovered extrasolar planets 3-meter Shane Reflector at Lick

34. Good public program, too. McDonald Observatory (UT-Austin) 2.7-meter

35. Segmented mirror design McDonald Observatory’s Hobby-Eberly 9.2-meter

36. Mayal 4-m McMath solar telescope Wynn Near Tucson Tax supported with other consortia, too Nice public program Tucson: good lighting Kitt Peak National Observatory