Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, כרך 3Andre Heck Springer Science & Business Media, 2000 - 238 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
Close Encounters of the Third Kind with the Hubble Space Telescope | 11 |
Public Relations for a National Observatory | 21 |
Four Decades as a Galley Slave | 35 |
The International Max Planck Research School IMPRS for Astrophysics at GarchingMunich | 47 |
Quality Assirance in UK Higher Education | 63 |
NSF Evaluation Processes in the Astronomical Sciences | 71 |
Scientific Impact of Large Telescopes | 85 |
The Role of Ground Stations in Space Observatories | 95 |
Organizational Issues in Large Scientific Projects | 121 |
The History of the Joint Organization for Solar Observations JOSO 19692000 | 135 |
Optical Astronomy and South Africa Part I to 1994 | 153 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Czech Republic | 163 |
Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Slovak Republic | 181 |
Same Pursuits? | 191 |
History is Too Important to be Left to the Historians | 201 |
Updated Bibliography of SocioAstronomy | 217 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume III <span dir=ltr>Andre Heck</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2012 |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy, כרך 3 <span dir=ltr>Andre Heck</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2011 |
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy: Volume III <span dir=ltr>Andre Heck</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2000 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
2002 Kluwer Academic Academy of Sciences activities archives asteroids Astron astronomical community Astronomical Institute Astronomical Society Astronomy and Astrophysics budget CFHT chromospheric Citation collaboration coordination Czech Republic director Dordrecht Editors European solar European Southern Observatory evaluation evolution facilities funding galaxies ground station ground-based groups Hardbound Heck historians Hubble Hubble Space Telescope IMPRS instruments ISBN issue JOSO Kluwer Acad Kluwer Academic Publishers Lick Observatory Max Planck meeting meteoroid mission National NRAO observations Ondřejov operations orbit Organizations and Strategies Pacific panel papers participation PIOs Prague program officer proposals Publ Radio Astronomy refractor satellite scientific impact scientists Scientometrics Skalnaté Pleso Observatory Sky & Telescope Slovak Solar Physics Space Telescope spacecraft Spéc staff stellar Strategies in Astronomy Tatranská Lomnica technical University Virtual Observatory Volume
הפניות לספר זה
Organizations and Strategies in Astronomy 7 <span dir=ltr>Andre HECK</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2007 |