The C. Donald Shane telescope is a 120-inch (3.05-meter) reflecting telescope located at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California. It was named after...
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buildings on Kitt Peak National Observatory as well. The 3-meter C. Donald Shane telescope, located at Lick Observatory, was also named after him. The approved...
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6 months after Shane died. The 3-meter C. Donald Shane telescope at the Lick Observatory was named after him in 1978. The 1994 Shane asteroid was named...
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Harlan J. Smith Telescope is a 107-inch (2.7 m) telescope located at the McDonald Observatory, in Texas, in the United States. This telescope is one of several...
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taken with the 36-inch Crossley reflecting telescope which he had recently rebuilt. In 1928, Donald C. Shane studied carbon stars, and was able to distinguish...
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reflector was used extensively before the 120 in. Shane Reflecting Telescope (C. Donald Shane Telescope) was built in 1959. "Monthly Notices of the Royal...
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demand for time on the 120-inch C. Donald Shane telescope by taking on research programs that do not require the Shane's greater light-gathering power....
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Corning Labs' glass test blanks for the Hale was used for the C. Donald Shane telescope's 120-inch (300 cm) primary mirror. The collecting area of the...
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was detected using radial velocity measurements taken with the C. Donald Shane telescope at Lick Observatory. They went on to find 70 of the first 100...
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The Isaac Newton Telescope or INT is a 2.54 m (100 in) optical telescope run by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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the Lick Observatory, where he was one of the designers of the C. Donald Shane telescope. Using photometric techniques that he had pioneered before the...
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was detected using radial velocity measurements taken with the C. Donald Shane telescope at Lick Observatory. It has an orbital period of 117 days, an...
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Telescopes with aperture diameter >8 metres This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater...
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1945 he returned to Berkeley, obtaining his doctorate in 1948 under C. Donald Shane. He then worked at the University of Michigan for astronomer Robert...
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Nicholas U. Mayall (section 120-inch (3.0 m) telescope)
Mayall and Shane present, the committee decided upon the basic parameters of what would become the 120-inch (3.0 m) C. Donald Shane telescope. On March...
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second-largest telescope when inaugurated, between the Hale (5 m) and Shane (3 m). Largest telescopes 1973: Here is the dedication of the telescope with its...
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refracting lens telescopes in North America: Optical telescopes only Some of the largest at observatories: Lists of telescopes List of radio telescopes List of...
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Kepler-11c (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
by the Hale and the C. Donald Shane telescopes in California; MMT, WIYN, and Tillinghast telescopes in Arizona; the Keck I telescope in Hawaii; the Hobby–Eberly...
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Brian J. Boyle, Australia Telescope National Facility Shane Burns, Colorado College Patricia G. Castro, Instituto Superior...
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Proxima Centauri (redirect from Alpha Centauri C)
infrared wavelengths. In 2002, optical interferometry with the Very Large Telescope (VLTI) found that the angular diameter of Proxima Centauri is 1.02±0.08 mas...
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between November 2004 and March 2009 with the Coudé Auxiliary and C. Donald Shane telescopes at Lick Observatory. List of extrasolar planets Peek, Kathryn...
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Asher Johnson and collaborators used the Coudé Auxiliary and C. Donald Shane telescopes at Lick Observatory in California. The planet takes 6.8 days to...
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88 m) reflector telescope, at one time the second-largest telescope in the world, and still the largest in Canada. Several other telescopes are also located...
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1103/Physics.1.14. Fichtel, C. E.; Bertsch, D. L.; Dingus, B. L.; et al. (1994). "Search of the energetic gamma-ray experiment telescope (EGRET) data for high-energy...
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Proxima Centauri b (redirect from Α Centauri C b)
3847/1538-4357/ab8882. S2CID 215238822. Sheikh, Sofia Z.; Smith, Shane; Price, Danny C.; DeBoer, David; Lacki, Brian C.; Czech, Daniel J.; Croft, Steve; Gajjar, Vishal;...
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and its high-contrast albedo features have made it a common subject for telescope viewing. It is classified as a terrestrial planet and is the second smallest...
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He was the husband of Karen Baldwin and raised two children with her, Shane and Kelly, with the latter being adopted from Vietnam in the 1970s. During...
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James Webb Space Telescope. NASA publishes images of a debris disk surrounding the red dwarf AU Mic, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, capturing details...
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the largest optical telescopes in the 20th century, paying special attention to the diameter of the mirror or lens of the telescope's objective, or aperture...
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Ceres (dwarf planet) (category C-type asteroids (SMASS))
its surface features are barely visible even with the most powerful telescopes, and little was known about it until the robotic NASA spacecraft Dawn...
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