Research Catalog

Title

The Radio universe : a slide set and captions / by Gerrit L. Verschuur ; produced and distributed by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Publication

San Francisco, CA : The Society, 1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Verschuur, Gerrit L., 1937-
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)

Description

40 slides : color +

Summary

Shows and explains views of the universe which were made with radio telescopes.

Subject

• Cosmology
• Radio telescopes
• Radio astronomy > Slides
• cosmology
• Radio astronomy

Genre/Form

Slides.

Note

• Title from booklet.
• "Images from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory."
• "AS 299."
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 18-19).

Credits (note)

• Collector, Margaret Weems.

Contents

1. Basic radio telescope -- 2. How an interferometer works -- 3. The very large array radio telescope -- 4. Data reduction steps -- 5. The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A -- 6. The supernova remnant, Taurus A -- 7. The radio galaxy, Cygnus A -- 8. The west lobe of the radio galaxy, Cygnus A -- 9. The twin tail radio galaxy, 3C 75 -- 10. Hercules A (3C 348) -- 11. NGC 6251 (whole field) -- 12. Sagittarius A -- 13. Sagittarius A filaments close-up -- 14. NGC 6251 in zoom -- 15. 3C 120 -- 16. NGC 7354 -- 17. NGC 6543 -- 18. Cassiopeia A -- 19. Tycho's Supernova -- 20. M51 -- 21. Radio brightness of the sun -- 22. Jupiter -- 23. Saturn -- 24. NGC 326 -- 25. NGC 315 -- 26. 3C 449 -- 27. 1919 +479 -- 28. Centaurus A (NGC 5128) -- 29. NGC 1265 (3C 83, 1B; 0134 +416) -- 30. M84 (NGC4374); 3C 272.1) -- 31. M82 (3C 231; NGC3034) -- 32. 2300-189 -- 33. 0957 +561; gravitational lens -- 24. NGC 6251 -- 35. Virgo A (M87; NGC 4486; 3C 274) -- 36. SS 433 -- 37. S106 -- 38. M17 -- 39. Sagittarius A Nucleus -- 40. Virgo cluster galaxies.

LCCN

86706050

OCLC

• ocm16527933
• 16527933
• SCSB-2087554

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library