Telescopes Now Lecture 1: The William Herschel and the Hubble telescopes

In the first in a series of lectures by senior astronomers about recent developments in telescopes, Professor Alexander Boksenberg talks about his work with the William Herschel and the Hubble telescopes. Professor Alexander Boksenberg is Honorary Professor of Experimental Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and a former Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. In his lecture he touches on some of the practical, political, technical, financial and organisational challenges faced by the teams who built the William Herschel and Hubble telescopes

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Telescopes Now Lecture 1: The William Herschel and the Hubble telescopes is an episode from Museum of the History of Science by Oxford University.

This episode is 82:26 long.

This episode was published on Mar 3, 2009.

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