4 papers
Does the Lunar Surface Still Offer Value As a Site for Astronomical Observatories?
Daniel F. Lester, Harold W. Yorke, John C. Mather
Current thinking about the Moon as a destination has revitalized interest in lunar astronomical observatories. Once seen by a large scientific community as a highly enabling site,…
A Tentative Detection of the Cosmic Infrared Background at 3.5 microns Using COBE/DIRBE Observations
E. Dwek, R. G. Arendt
Foreground emission and scattered light from interplanetary dust (IPD) particles and emission from Galactic stellar sources are the greatest obstacles for determining the cosmic in…
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Robert H. Cornett, Michael R. Greason, Jesse K. Hill +9
A mosaic of four UIT far-UV (FUV; 1620A) images, which covers most of the SMC bar, is presented, with derived stellar and HII region photometry. The UV morphology of the Bar shows…
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) Observations of the SMC
Robert H. Cornett, Theodore P. Stecher, the UIT Science Team
A mosaic of four UIT far-UV (FUV; 1620A) images, which covers most of the SMC bar, is presented, with derived stellar and HII region photometry. The UV morphology of the SMC's Bar…