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Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

Volume III

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Editors:
  1. André Heck

    1. Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 280)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Editorial

    • André Heck
    Pages 1-10

  3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind With the Hubble Space Telescope

    • Claude Nicollier
    Pages 11-19

  4. Public Relations For A National Observatory

    • David G. Finley
    Pages 21-34

  5. Popularizing Astronomy: Four Decades as a Galley Slave

    • Leif J. Robinson
    Pages 35-45

  6. The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astrophysics at Garching-Munich

    • Joachim Trümper
    Pages 47-61

  7. Quality Assurance in UK Higher Education

    • Valerie Shrimplin
    Pages 63-69

  8. NSF Evaluation Processes in the Astronomical Sciences

    • Eileen D. Friel
    Pages 71-84

  9. Scientific Impact of Large Telescopes

    • Chris R. Benn
    Pages 85-94

  10. The Rôle of Ground Stations in Space Observatories

    • Valeriano Claros, Daniel Ponz
    Pages 95-105

  11. Some Thoughts about the Virtual Observatory Concept

    • Piero Benvenuti
    Pages 107-119

  12. Organizational Issues in Large Scientific Projects

    • Daniel Enard
    Pages 121-134

  13. The History of the Joint Organization for Solar Observations (JOSO) 1969–2000

    • Peter N. Brandt, Wolfgang Mattig
    Pages 135-152

  14. Optical Astronomy and South Africa. Part I. to 1994

    • Michael Feast
    Pages 153-161

  15. Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Czech Republic

    • Jan Palouš, Jan Vondrák, Martin Šolc
    Pages 163-179

  16. Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Slovak Republic

    • Vojtech Rušin, Jan Svoreň, Juraj Zverko
    Pages 181-190

  17. Historians and Astronomers: Same Pursuits?

    • Joshua B. Stein
    Pages 191-199

  18. The View from the Observatory: History is Too Important to be Left to the Historians

    • Donald E. Osterbrock
    Pages 201-215

  19. Updated Bibliography of Socio-Astronomy

    • André Heck
    Pages 217-234
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About this book

We have arrived at the third volume of this useful series on Organiza­ tions and Strategies in Astronomy (OSA). It contains seventeen articles on a wide range of topics, from virtual observatories, astronomy organizations in various communities (Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, South Africa), and the role of ground stations in space observatories, to quality assurance in UK higher education. In this foreword, I shall give some views on ideas expressed in this volume, in particular from my personal experience when I was project officer for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). Let me first remind readers that present and future astronomy is in­ creasingly dependent on high-level management. Not everybody knows that the scheduling of the Hubble Space Telescope is performed by a neural­ network software called SPIKE, described in the stimulating workshop New Observing Modes for the Next Centuryl, partly reported in OSA Volume II by 1. Robson. New observing facilities, in space or on the ground, are so complex that they need highly qualified engineers and rigorous management procedures. Each observing hour on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) fa­ cility is worth about EUR 7,000, including the amortization of the capital expenses over 30 years. This does not leave much room for amateurism, neither in the time allocation procedures, nor in the daily telescope control.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France

    André Heck

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy

  • Book Subtitle: Volume III

  • Editors: André Heck

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0606-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0812-2Published: 31 December 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3932-1Published: 10 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0606-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 238

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general

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