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The Cosmic Inquirers by Wallace & Karen Tucker (1986, Harvard) |
Good introduction to modern instrument thought and their creators |
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The Perfect Machine by Ronald Florence(1994, Harper ) |
The best description of the building of the 5-meter telescope at Palomar |
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First Light by Richard Preston(2nd ed., 1996, Cambridge) |
Modern astronomy as practiced today |
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Stairway to the Stars by Barry Parker(1994, Plenum) |
The founding of the Mauna Kea observatories |
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The Hubble Wars by Eric J. Chaisson(1994, Harper) |
The politics behind the first major telescope on orbit |
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Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) |
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Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) |
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South African Large Telescope (SALT) |
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Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) |
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Large sky Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAM-OST) |
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Dark Matter Telescope (DMT) |
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California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT) |
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Swedish 50 meter telescope (XLT) |
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Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) |
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Decadal Review |
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Sky & Telescope’s special report on future space-based telescopes |
Recent Magazine Articles
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August 2000 |
articles on the largest telescopes on Earth and future designs |
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January 2001 |
the Decadal study’s recommendations |
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December 2000 |
articles on the future of telescopes |
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