Sentences with phrase «photographic plates at»

It was also imaged independently at Palomar by the 48» «Samuel Oschin» Schmidt camera on red photographic plates at roughly the same time period.

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The Sloan Telescope (located at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico) retraced much of the Palomar Survey but replaced photographic plates with digital imagery that could be updated and analyzed electronically, anywhere.

Clyde Tombaugh, who found Pluto in 1930, spent a decade or more going out to the telescope at night, taking these photographic plates, developing the plates in daytime, and looking through them.

It took photographic plates everywhere across the sky, and these plates were reproduced on film and sent to every astronomy library in the world, which allowed anybody to get out a jewelers» loupe and look at whatever part of the sky he or she wished.

At about the time the Lamb shift was reported, a group in England discovered the decay of the pion to the muon in photographic plates exposed to cosmic rays at high altitudAt about the time the Lamb shift was reported, a group in England discovered the decay of the pion to the muon in photographic plates exposed to cosmic rays at high altitudat high altitude.

For example, at my University, many years before the discovery of radioactivity, a professor of Physics noticed that sealed photographic plates in a drawer had been darkened.

It certainly didn't hurt to have at his disposal all of the resources of Lowell, a world famous observatory (where the planet Pluto had been discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, using some of the same photographic plates that Burnham used years later).

Working at the Sproul Observatory (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania), astronomer Peter van de Kamp examined 2,413 photographic plates of the star taken between 1916 and 1962.

Exoplanets, or planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, were first discovered in the 1990s, but old photographic plates taken nearly 100 years ago and recently found in storerooms at Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, contain the first evidence of their existence.

Scottish astronomer Robert T. A. Innes discovered Proxima Centauri in 1915 by blinking photographic plates taken at different times during a dedicated proper motion survey.

The star was first designated as CP (D)-67 2079 (as in ChView data files) by the 1900 publication of the third part of the Cape Photographic Durchmusterung or CPD, based on photographic plates taken by David Gill (1843 - 1914) at the Royal Observatory on the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, that were analyzed by Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1Photographic Durchmusterung or CPD, based on photographic plates taken by David Gill (1843 - 1914) at the Royal Observatory on the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, that were analyzed by Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1photographic plates taken by David Gill (1843 - 1914) at the Royal Observatory on the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, that were analyzed by Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851 - 1922).

A photographic plate from the Palomar Observatory showed a bright burst in 1954 at the same point in the sky as iPTF14hls (left).

Kapteyn, who lacked a telescope, volunteered to measure photographic plates taken by David Gill (1843 - 1914), also at the Cape Observatory.

Alongside a selection of color plates, Michael Darling, James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator at the MCA, reviews the works in the exhibition within the context of the artist's career; Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, examines the artist's position within photographic and cinematic history; and novelist Kate Zambreno considers the fragments of lost objects and what it means to collect.

African American Vernacular Photography reproduces 70 of Cowin's most exceptional color plates with essays by Brian Wallis, Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography, and Deborah Willis, MacArthur Fellow and author of Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present and, with Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.

For example, at my University, many years before the discovery of radioactivity, a professor of Physics noticed that sealed photographic plates in a drawer had been darkened.

You discover photographic plates, you know, getting fogged up in your desk drawer as Becquerel did, and start looking at that, and Madame Curie started looking at that, and you discover some kind of strange radiation, from beryllium and radium and you know, Chadwick had enough sense to realize, oh my god this is a completely new particle, it's a neutron; it goes right through most things.