Today: I. What's the point of observing the universe? II. Golden Age of Observational Astronomy? III. Telescopes of this Semester IV. Logistics Reading: 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.3-4.5 HW#1 Due Tuesday

A Golden Age for Astronomy

source: Bely, The Design and Construction of Large Telescopes

source: astron.berkeley.edu/~jrg/CELT/ay250.html

source: home.no.net/jonbent/telescope.html

The Telescopes for the Semester

Leander McCormick Observatory

The "Dog House"

The priceless 6-inch Alvan-Clark refractor (we really need a better picture!)

The 26-inch at McCormick

Star tracks behind the 40-inch

The 40-inch at Fan Mt. (we need a better picture!)

and our Field Trip!

The 100-meter Bryd Green Bank Telescope