Record #:

15868

Author(s):

Sorg, Lisa

Abstract:

Every 20 minutes on most nights in the 1950s, two telescopes in the New Mexico desert took pictures of the sky. When the Harvard-Smithsonian Meteor Study shoot ended in the late 1950s, thousands of pictures had documented that wedge of the universe. More than 40 years later, North Carolina astronomers Bob Hayward and Mike Castelaz of the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) began examining the 40,000 images and found unexpected novae.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 29 Issue 3, Jan 2012, p5, 7, 9, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Astronomy; Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI)

Record #:

36968

Author(s):

Lucas, Adam

Abstract:

Profile was that year’s solar eclipse, a total solar eclipse in history touted as viewable in towns such as Franklin, Sylva, and Highlands. Included in the profile were other contributions that western North Carolina has made to the field of astronomy. In the early 1960s, NASA established a satellite tracking station in Transylvania County, now called the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. That institute became a site of research for this eclipse.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 3, August 2017, p135-136 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Eclipses; Astronomy; Transylvania County; Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI); Old Salem; Zoos; Sylva--Description and travel; Highlands--Description and travel; Franklin--Description and travel; Morehead Planetarium (Chapel Hill)