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    Nicholas Ulrich Mayall (May 9, 1906 – January 5, 1993) was an American observational astronomer. After obtaining his doctorate from the University of California...
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    that remains of a dwarf galaxy consumed by Andromeda. Mayall II is named after Nicholas U. Mayall, who, with Olin J. Eggen, discovered it in 1953. SKHB...
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    The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope, also known as the Mayall 4-meter Telescope, is a four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope located at the Kitt Peak...
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    constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Lewis Swift in 1887 and in 1935 Nicholas Mayall became the first to suggest that the object is extragalactic. Edwin...
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  • singer John Jabez Edwin Mayall (1813–1901), British photographer Margaret Mayall (1902–1995), American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), American...
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    George Ellery Hale 3. Mayall Telescope (Kitt Peak National Obs.) 158 inch 401 cm 10 m2 2,120 m (6,960 ft) 1973 Nicholas Mayall 4. Víctor M. Blanco Telescope...
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    American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940, using the Crossley reflector. When first discovered, Mayall's Object was described...
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  • Redshifts and magnitudes of extragalactic nebulae by Milton L. Humason, Nicholas U. Mayall, Allan Sandage 1936 Catalogue of Galaxy Redshifts: The Apparent Radial...
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    controversial until the nature of supernovae was understood, and it was Nicholas Mayall who indicated that the star of 1054 was undoubtedly the supernova whose...
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    Crab Nebula, concluding in a paper, written with American astronomer Nicholas Mayall, that it was the result of a supernova explosion. In 1940, Nazi Germany...
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    George Ellery Hale 3. Mayall Telescope (Kitt Peak National Obs.) 158 inch 401 cm 13 m2 2,120 m (6,960 ft) 1973 Nicholas Mayall 4. Víctor M. Blanco Telescope...
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    Baade and Fritz Zwicky and when their nature was suggested by Zwicky, Nicholas Mayall proposed that the star of 1054 was actually a supernova, based on the...
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  • calculate the first neutron star models. 1942 – J.J.L. Duyvendak, Nicholas Mayall, and Jan Oort deduce that the Crab Nebula is a remnant of the 1054...
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  • Lochhead, baseball player Janet Leigh (1927–2004), actress from Psycho Nicholas Mayall (1906–1993; Class of 1924) observational astronomer at the Lick Observatory...
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    Telescope. May 22, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2019. Mayall, Nicholas Ulrich (1970). "Nicholas U. Mayall". In Stone, Irving (ed.). There was light: Autobiography...
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    Barnes Nicholson (Mt. Wilson-Palomar Observatories; 2nd term) 1958–1959 Nicholas Mayall (Lick Observatory; 2nd term) 1956–1957 Andrew McKellar (Dominion Astrophysical...
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  • Amy Barger, and Lennox Cowie. Mayall's Object is the result of a galaxy collision in Ursa Major, named after Nicholas Mayall. 9Spitch is a gravitationally...
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  • studies by astronomers including Vesto Slipher, Milton Humason, and Nicholas Mayall noted the presence of unusual emission lines in some galaxy nuclei...
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    Commissioned in 1974 and completed in 1976, the telescope is identical to the Mayall 4m telescope located on Kitt Peak. In 1995 it was dedicated and named in...
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    Commons has media related to Nicholas Parsons. Nicholas Parsons at the British Film Institute Nicholas Parsons at IMDb Nicholas Parsons discography at Discogs...
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  • telescope utilized a slitless spectrograph that was originally employed by Nicholas Mayall. The Henry Draper Catalogue, published 1924, contains stellar classifications...
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  • by Arnold Klemola at the Lick Observatory and named in honor of Nicholas U. Mayall (1906–1993), director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory during...
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  • Hercules) MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image MayallNicholas Mayall (for example: globular star cluster Mayall II orbiting Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy)...
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  • mother of the discoverer Lyudmila Zhuravleva MPC · 2130 2131 Mayall 1975 RA Nicholas Mayall (1906–1993), American astronomer MPC · 2131 2132 Zhukov 1975...
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    Shane Telescope Lick Observatory 120 inch 305 cm 1283 m (4209 ft) 1959 Nicholas Mayall C. Donald Shane 3 Hooker Telescope Mount Wilson Obs. 100 inch 254 cm...
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  • alternative comedy scene. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson and Jennifer Saunders, with appearances...
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    The telescope's blueprints were a gift from Kitt Peak's director Nicholas Mayall. Between 1953 and 1955, Sahade served as Director of the Astronomical...
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  • Dodd, 31, American convicted serial killer, execution by hanging. Nicholas Mayall, 86, American astronomer, diabetes. Eliseo Morales, 94, Spanish Olympic...
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    under a perpetual agreement. The second director (1960 to 1971) was Nicholas U. Mayall. In 1982, NOAO was formed to consolidate the management of three optical...
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    Nigel Planer (redirect from Nicholas Craig)
    Hocking Nicholas Craig – The Naked Actor (1990–1992, TV Series) as Nicholas Craig Nicholas Craig's Interview Masterclass (1990, TV Series) as Nicholas Craig...
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