Computers and telescopes
Trying out the computer system linked to the University of Canterbury’s onemetre reflecting telescope are delegates to the International Astronomical Union symposium being held in Christchurch this week.
From left are Mr Phil lanna, of Charlottesville, Virginia, holding a photograph of the California nebula; Mr Shu Neng Hon, of the Shanghai Observatory, China; and Mr Michael Zeilik, of the University of New Mexico.
About 150 people from 19 countries are attending the symposium, and the telescope is a centre of interest as it falls, by international
standards, within the topic of the convention — small telescopes. However, the telescope is the largest in New Zealand and has taken more than four years to build. When completed in February it will be moved to the university’s observatory at Mount John, Lake Tekapo, where its first task will be to track Halley’s Comet.
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Press, 6 December 1985, Page 5
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