William Livingston places a Westinghouse image orthicon tube in a camera
Abstract/Description: | Using a high sensitivity tube with a "built-in" memory at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona to help astronomers learn more about distant stars. William Livingston places a Westinghouse image orthicon tube in a camera in the observing room of the world's largest solar telescope. The tube, similar to the type used in a television camera, is used with the telescope's spectroscope to photograph weak stellar spectra at night. The orthicon tube translates a light image into a video signal which can be displayed on a monitor and photographed for additional study. |
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Subject(s): | Equipment and supplies Laboratories Livingston, W. C. (William Charles) |
Credit Line: | AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives |
Catalog ID: | Livingston William F1 |
Title: | William Livingston places a Westinghouse image orthicon tube in a camera. | |
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Type of Resource: | still image | |
Extent: | 1 photographic print (black and white; 10 x 8 inches) | |
Abstract/Description: | Using a high sensitivity tube with a "built-in" memory at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona to help astronomers learn more about distant stars. William Livingston places a Westinghouse image orthicon tube in a camera in the observing room of the world's largest solar telescope. The tube, similar to the type used in a television camera, is used with the telescope's spectroscope to photograph weak stellar spectra at night. The orthicon tube translates a light image into a video signal which can be displayed on a monitor and photographed for additional study. | |
Identifier(s): | Livingston William F1 (Catalog ID) | |
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Credit Line: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives |
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Subject(s): |
Equipment and supplies Laboratories Livingston, W. C. (William Charles) |
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Held by: | Niels Bohr Library & Archives | |
Related Title: |
Emilio Segrè Visual Archives General Collection. https://libserv.aip.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100006~!4022~!0&ri=3&menu=search&source=~!horizon |
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