Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21540001h&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #400.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.216
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
"Decoding Starlight" is the name of the 2,400 square-foot, interactive, and bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibit on spectroscopy at the Frank N. Bash McDonald Observatory Visitors Center in Fort Davis, Texas. The exhibit was designed by McDonald Observatory public outreach and education staff, astronomers, Sears-Russell Consultants, Inc. of Canada and built by ExPlus, Inc. of Virginia. Spectroscopy was selected as the theme of the exhibit as well as the topic of many of the educational programs that are conducted at the Visitors Center in order to align with the mission of the largest telescope at McDonald Observatory, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Three major figures from the history of astronomical spectroscopy are included in the exhibit: Joseph Fraunhofer, Annie Jump Cannon, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. Frankhofer holds a prism, Cannon is positioned next to an objective prism plate, and Payne-Gaposchkin introduces a section called "Cracking the Code" that features interactive exhibits on the temperature, motion, and evolution of stars.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of NSF 96-26965 `Fingerprinting the Universe - An Interactive, Bilingual Exhibit on Spectroscopy'
Cianciolo Frank
Hemenway Mary Kay M.
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