Astronomical Observatories in Georgia (U.S. State) - Puckett Observatory, Red Barn Observatory, Bradley Observatory, Fernbank Observatory (Paperback)

Chapters: Puckett Observatory, Red Barn Observatory, Bradley Observatory, Fernbank Observatory, Mead Observatory, Hard Labor Creek Observatory, North Georgia Astronomical Observatory. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Puckett Observatory - The Puckett Observatory houses three telescopes. The 60 cm (24) Ritchey-Chretien telescope was custom engineered and built by Puckett, and took nine years to complete, going online full-time in 1997. The telescope features a new type of hybrid disk/band worm drive designed by Puckett in 1993. The other observatory telescopes include a 50 cm folded Newtonian reflector, also built by Puckett, and a Celetron C-14 Schmidt-Cassegrain with a Software Bisque's Paramount ME Robotic Telescope System. The Puckett Observatory World Supernova Search was formed in 1998, with its principal investigator being Tim Puckett. The search consists of a team of amateur astronomers located in the United States, Canada and Italy. Observatories participating in the search include the Puckett Observatory, and telescopes located in Portal, Arizona (Jack Newton), and Osoyoos, BC (Ajai Sehgal). The observatory uses computers to control the robotic telescopes and sends the images to volunteers via the Internet. Each image is manually compared ("blinked") to archive images. At least 40 hours each week are required to run the search operation, and Puckett is assisted by Tom Orff. All team members have contributed thousands of hours to analyzing the data. Past and present members include: Eric Briggs, Lou Cox, Debra Ceravolo, Peter Ceravolo, Tom Crowley, Robert Gagliano, Doug George, R. Scott Ireland, Brian Kerns, Anthony Kroes, Alex Langoussis, Caroline Moore, Robert Moore, Jack Newton, Mike OConnor, Tom Orff, Andrea Pelloni, Mike Peop...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=21866612