Topics: telescopes, observatories, instruments, optics, astronomy

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(Spitzer) Bahcall, John N. & Jeremiah P. Ostriker. Lyman Spitzer Jr. Physics Today 50:10 (October 1997) 123-124.

Spitzer Space Telescope Fact Sheet http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/spitzer-fact-sheet1.pdf April 2004

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Srinivasan, S.R. Astronomy at Osmania University India. Journal of the British Astronomical Association 96:6 (Oct. 1986) 339-341. (Cooke 203mm doublet astrograph 1909; 381mm refractor 1909; Fecker 1.2m reflector 1968)

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Standage, H.C. The Camera Obscura: Its Uses, Action, and Construction. Amateur Work Illustrated 4 (1885) 67-71. (.pdf)

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Staubermann, Klaus. Making stars: projection culture in nineteenth century German astronomy. British Journal for the History of Science 34 (2001) 439-451.

Steadman, Philip. Vermeer's Camera, uncovering the truth behind the masterpieces. Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2001. (camera obscura)

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Stephenson, F. Richard. Historical eclipses and Earth's rotation. Astronomy & Geophysics 44:2 (April 2003) 2.22-2.27.

Steavenson, W.H. Air disturbance in reflectors. Vistas in Astronomy 1 (1955) 473-474. (seeing)

Steavenson, W.H. Historical telescopes. The Observatory 52 (Nov. 1929) 330-331. (request for information on obscure telescopes)

Stebbins, Joel. Book review: Telescopes and Accessories, by George Z. Dimitroff & James G. Baker. Science 101 (March 23, 1945) 302-303. (#2621)

Stebbins, Joel & Edward A. Fath. The Use of Astronomical Telescopes in Determining the Speeds of Migrating Birds. Science 24 (Jul. 13, 1906) 49-51. (#602)

(Stebbins) Osterbrock, Donald E. Stebbins, Joel. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02507.html Nov 25 2003.

Stecher, Theodore P., et al. The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope - Design and performance. Astrophysical Journal Letters 395:1 (Aug. 1992) L1-L4.

Stecher, T.P., et. al. The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope: Instrument and Data Characteristics. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 109 (May 1997) 584-599.

Steinbach, M. In memoriam Alfred Jensch. F&M Mechatronik 110, 14. http://www.tls-tautenburg.de/hist/nachruf.html 2002.

Stencel, Robert E. First Light at the New Mt. Evans Observatory. The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 27:1 (1999) 61-64.

Stenflo, J.O. LEST - A large international solar telescope for the 1990s. Vistas in Astronomy 28:2 (1985) 571-576.

Stephens, Carlene E. Before standard time: Distributing time in 19th-century America. Vistas in Astronomy 28:1 (1985) 113-118.

Stephenson, F.R. Historical Evidence concerning the Sun: Interpretation of Sunspot Records during the Telescopic and Pretelescopic Eras. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A 330 (24 April 1990) 499-512. (#1615)

Sterrenburg, Frithjof A.S. Microscopy Primer. http://www.microscopy-uk.net/index.html?http://www.microscopy-uk.net/primer/index.htm May 2004

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Stewart, Balfour. Description of an Apparatus for the Verification of Sextants Designed and Constructed by Mr. T. Cooke, and Recently Erected at the Kew Observatory. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 16 (1867-1868) 1-6.

Stewart, John Q. An Astronomer Looks at the Modern Epoch. The Scientific Monthly 44:5 (May 1937) 391-404

Stewart, Robert J. The Stewart Stereophotometer. The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 26:2 (1998) 134-138. (eyepiece, comparison)

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Stimson, A.N. The Sextant. Occasional Technical Paper No. 3, 1975. National Maritime Museum.

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Stimson, Dorothy. Amateurs of Science in 17th Century England. Isis 31:1 (Nov. 1939) 32-47.

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Stirrup, Thomas. Horometria: or the compleat diallist. London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Paul's Chnrch-yard, 1652.

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Stokes, Arthur J. Elias Loomis and the Loomis Observatory. The Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 14:2 (1985) 72-73.

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Stone, E.J. On the telescopic observations of the transit of Venus 1874, made in the expedition of the British Government, and on the conclusions to be deduced from these observations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 38 (March 1878) 279-295.

(Stone) Zund, Joseph D. Stone, Ormand. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-01600.html Nov 25 2003.

Stoney, G.J. On Making the Siderostat an Instrument of Precision. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 56 (1896) 456-459.

(Storer) Stiverson, Gregory A. Storer, Arthur. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/01/01-01297.html Nov 25 2003.

Stothers, Richard B. Stratospheric Transparency Derived from Total Lunar Eclipse Colors, 1665-1800. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 116 (Sept. 2004) 886–893.

Stott, C. Longitude Zero 1884-1984. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society 25:3 (Sept. 1984) 306-308.

Stott, Carole. Observatory Chairs. Vistas in Astronomy 27 (1984), 291-302.

Stott, Carole & David W. Hughes. Two Piazzi Smyth Comet Paintings. Annals of Science 46:2 (March 1989) 165-172.

Strand, Kaj Aage. Axial and Radial Supports. p.66-70. The Construction of Large Telescopes, Proceedings from Symposium no. 27 held in Tucson, Arizona, Pasadena and Mount Hamilton, California, U.S.A., 5-12 April 1965. David Crawford, ed. I.A.U. Symposium #27. London: Academic Press, 1966.

Strand, Kaj Aage. Ejnar Hertzsprung, 1873-1967. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 80 (Feb. 1968 ) 51ff.

Strand, Kaj Aage. The 61-inch astrometric reflector, basic design and accuracy. Vistas in Astronomy 8 (1966) 9-15.

(Strand) Dick, Steven J. Obituary: Kaj Aage Strand, 1907-2000. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33:4 (Dec. 2001) 1584-1585.

(Strange) Lt-Col. Alexander Strange, 1818-1876. Obituary. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 37:4 (1877) 154-159 by E.D.

Strangehopes, Samuel. A book of knowledge. In four parts. Part first. Shewing the nature of astrology, by the caelestial signs and planets.... 1679. 144pp.

Strassl, H. Nomograms in astronomy: With two examples. Vistas in Astronomy 1 (1955) 451-467.

Strauss, David. Percival Lowell, W.H. Pickering and the Founding of the Lowell Observatory. Annals of Science 51:1 (Jan. 1994) 37-58.

Strauss, David. Reflections on Lowell and Mars. Annals of Science 55:1 (Jan. 1998) 95-103. Book Review William Graves, Lowell and Mars.

Streete, Thomas. Astronomia Carolina, A New Theorie of the Coelestial Motions. London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, and are to be sold at his shop ..., 1661.

Streete, Thomas. An appendix to Astronomia Carolina. London: Printed for Francis Cossinet ..., 1664.

Streete, Thomas. The description & use of the planetary systeme. London: Printed by J. Darby for Robert Morden ..., and William Berry ..., 1674.

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Streeter, John W. John Winthrop, Junior, and the Fifth Satellite of Jupiter. Isis 39:3 (Aug. 1948) 159-163.

Stretton, Thomas. An Account of an Appearance of Light, like a Star, Seen Lately in the Dark Part of the Moon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 84 (1794) 435-440. (illustration)

Stroh, A. On a New Form of Stereoscope. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 40 (1886) 317-319.

(Strömgren) Osterbrock, Donald E. Strömgren, Bengt. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/13/13-02620.html Nov 25 2003.

Strong, John. The Johns Hopkins University and Diffraction Gratings. Journal of the Optical Society of America 50:12 (Dec. 1960) 1148-1152.

Strong, John. On the Cleaning of Surfaces. Review of Scientific Instruments 6 (1935) 97-98. (breath figures)

Strong, John. Rowland's diffraction-grating art. Vistas in Astronomy 29:2 (1986) 137-141.

Stuhlinger, Ernst. Enabling Technology for Space Transportation. (pp99-103, telescopes.) J. Bleeker, J. Geiss, & M. Huber, ed. The Century of Space Science. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002.

Struve, Otto. Astronomy in 1900. Sky & Telescope 22:2 (Aug. 1961) 64-69.

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Sturm, M. Remarks on the Construction of Telescopes with Simple Cylindrical Glasses. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 15 (June 1855) 223-224.

Sugden, Keith. An Eclectic Astronomyer. Sky & Telescope, Jan. 1982, pp27-29. (W.H. Smyth)

Sullivan, W.T. Some highlights of Interferometry in early Radio Astronomy. pp132-149. Radio interferometry: Theory, techniques, and applications; Proceedings of the 131st IAU Colloquium, ASP Conference Series, vol. 19. San Francisco: ASP, 1991.

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Symposium: Current Programs of Schmidt Telescopes. Astronomical Journal 55:3 (April 1950) 65-84.

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Thomson, Elihu. Inferences concerning Auroras. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 3:1 (Jan. 15, 1917) 1-7.

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(Thomson) Sicilia, David B. Thomson, Elihu. American National Biography Online Feb. 2000. Oxford University Press. http://www.anb.org/articles/10/10-01641.html Nov 25 2003.

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