Big and Bright A History of the McDonald Observatory

Name: Big and Bright A History of the McDonald Observatory
Price: 5.45 USD
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ISBN: 9780292707627

ISBN-10: 0292707622

ISBN-13: 9780292707627

Edition: 1986

Authors: David S. Evans, J. Derral Mulholland

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By day, every year over 40,000 visitors pour in. Across the Rio Grande, a hundred miles away, Mexican mountaineers use the white domes as landmarks. By night, perched almost 7,000 feet above the sleeping, earthbound world, astronomers probe the secrets of the night sky. This is the University of Texas McDonald Observatory, one of the world's largest university-operated astronomical installations. Big and Bright: A History of the McDonald Observatory is the story of a remarkable collaboration between two major universities, one a prestigious private school, the other a growing southwestern state institution. The University of Chicago had astronomers, but its Yerkes Observatory was aging and…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/1/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English