The Australian Astronomy IRC Service,
has great pleasure in announcing that
Dr Halton.C.Arp will be appearing soon as our next 'Special Guest'
exclusively on the AAIRC as part of our continuing free contribution
to the Australian Astronomical Community.
Halton C. Arp received his Bachelors degree from Harvard College in
1949 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1953,
both cum laude. He is a professional astronomer who, earlier in his
career, conducted Edwin Hubble's nova search in M31. He has earned
the Helen B.Warner prize, the Newcomb Cleveland award and the
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. For 28 years he was
staff astronomer at the Mt. Palomar and Mt. Wilson observatories.
While there, he produced his well known catalog of "Peculiar
Galaxies" that are disturbed or irregular in appearance.
Arp discovered, from photographs and spectra with the big telescopes,
that many pairs of quasars (quasi-stellar objects) which have
extremely high redshift z values (and are therefore thought to be
receding from us very rapidly - and thus must be located at a great
distance from us) are physically connected to galaxies that have low
redshift and are known to be relatively close by. Because of Arp's
observations, the assumption that high red shift objects have to be
very far away - on which the Big Bang theory and all of "accepted
cosmology" is based - has to be fundamentally reexamined.!
The Date will be announced shortly. You may log on at
http://www.darksky.net.au/aairc.html to join the live exchange on the announced date or see
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MelbMeadeScopes for further updates.
Regards,
Bert Candusio
AAIRC
Macedon Ranges Observatory
