Kentwood Amateur Astronomy League

Table of Contents

Kentwood Amateur Astronomy League

Agenda

Discussion

KAAL Learning Lab

In the Beginning

First practical use

The First Telescope

Galileo

Kepler

The Race Is On

The Race Continues

A Problem Is Addressed

The Mirror is Tweaked

Herschel

Begin The Age of Large Reflectors

Yerkes 40-inch Refracting Telescope:The Largest Refracting Telescope in the World

The 100-inch Hooker Telescope

Radio Telescopes

Karl Jansky Discovers Cosmic Radio Waves

Schmidt

The Palomar 200 Inch

Work on the 200” Mirror

Radio Telescopes

Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory

305 Meter Reflector

Kitt Peak

Keck Telescopes

10 Meter Optical Telescopes

The Heart of the Beast

Into Space

Hubble

The Future

Can I have an Observatory?

Questions?

KAAL Issues

Next Meeting

Email: rforberg@pobox.com

Home Page: http://www.kaal.org

Other information:
This presentation was given at the 1/24/2000 meeting of KAAL.