History of the Hubble Space Telescope” by Professor Frederick M. Walter

Co sponsored by The Hamptons Observatory

The utility of a telescope in space was articulated by Lyman Spitzer in1947. This idea reached fruition with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. In a few short years the HST, launched with a deformed mirror, went from being a joke to becoming an icon of the space age. Thirty years later, its impact has been felt in much of observational astronomy.

Fred Walter is a Professor of Astronomy at Stony Brook University. Prior to that, as a research scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, he was a member of the Instrument Development Team of the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, one of the first generation science instruments on the HST. He has observed with other space telescopes too, including the International Ultraviolet Explorer and many X-rayastronomy missions. His astronomical interests include the galactic novae, the formation of low mass stars, stellar magnetic activity, and space weather.

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