Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the space age / W. Patrick McCray.
2008
QB33.U6 M33 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the space age / W. Patrick McCray.
Author
McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
ISBN
9780691128542
0691128545
0691128545
Imprint
Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
QB33.U6 M33 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
520.973/09045
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: "THEY said it couldn't be done!"
Cultures of observation
An astronomical engineer
Wanted: satellite spotters
Of spacehounds and lunartiks
Seeing history through a small telescope
Amateurs provide strength on the bench
Moonwatch grows up
The legacy of Moonwatch.
Cultures of observation
An astronomical engineer
Wanted: satellite spotters
Of spacehounds and lunartiks
Seeing history through a small telescope
Amateurs provide strength on the bench
Moonwatch grows up
The legacy of Moonwatch.