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A letter of invitation to membership of the Altazimuth Mounting Committee (V.C. Reddish, G.J. Carpenter, J.G. Davies, T.A. Wyatt and the Science Research Council), with a list of discussion topics and possible courses of action with regard to altazimuth mountings for optical telescopes.

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A copy of a letter from Redman to V.C. Reddish, Siding Spring Observatory, regretting that he cannot attend the Anglo-Australian Telescope opening ceremony and commenting on progress at Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co. Ltd.

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A letter from Redman to V.C. Reddish sending corrected minutes of the meeting of the A.A.T. Astronomical Working Party in February 1972 (not included).

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A copy of a letter from R.F. Griffin to B.N. Watts, Science Research Council, 29 January 1973, commenting on the computer specification, enclosing part of his letter to V.C. Reddish, 4 September 1969, referring to dome rotation.

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A memorandum to Redman from V.C. Reddish entitled 'Anglo-Australian Telescope Autoguider Systems', regarding the issue of acquisition and guiding.

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A copy of a memorandum from V.C. Reddish to Professor Brück outlining his opinions on the future of British astronomy, in preparation for the meeting of the Northern Hemisphere Review Committee on 20 October 1969. There is also a memorandum from R.F. and R.E.M. Griffin on the same subject.

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A copy of the minutes of an ad-hoc meeting of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Working Party in Canberra on 8 June 1972, prepared by V.C. Reddish, 26 June 1972.

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Miscellaneous correspondence with, among others, R.O. Redman of the University of Cambridge; the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London; G. Porter of the Royal Institution; and V.C. Reddish of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, including letters regarding a lecture by Sir Richard Woolley, with a copy of the actual lecture.

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A copy of paper by V.C. Reddish entitled 'N.H.O. The Scientific Case for a Large Telescope', dated 1 August 1972.

Scope and Contents Papers for the meeting of the Science Research Council Directors' Committee on 3 October 1977, including a letter from V.C. Reddish, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, to P. Casey, S.R.C., 29 September 1977, regarding the staffing of the R.O.E. Cosmos Facility; 'Manpower Estimates 1978/79' by the Director of Administration; 'Report of the Administration Group Central Review Board'; 'Report of the 1976 Science Group Review Central Review Board'; 'Management of the Science Group in 1978' by the...

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Agenda and documents for the twenty-third meeting of P.I.L.O.T. (Panel on Instrumentation for Large Optical Telescopes) on 9 July 1971, including a paper by Dr Reddish, with comments by Redman, on the Anglo-Australian Telescope Astronomical Working Party.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding meetings of the Panel on the Instrumentation of Large Optical Telescopes (P.I.L.O.T.) and the Large Telescope Users Panel:A memorandum (PILOT-213), progress report No. 1, regarding the multi-channel spectrophotometer for the Anglo-Australian Telescope, 1972. Attached is PILOT-222, a broad outline of the design of the instrument, dated 19 May 1972.A memorandum from D. McMullan on the construction and use of a Wampler Superscanner. Attached...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring:Correspondence with V.C. Reddish, Edinburgh, 1972, requesting E.M. Burbidge's attendance at a meeting in Canberra, and including a copy of the 48-inch Schmidt Advisory Committee report SCH25, dealing mainly with the choice of wavebands for which corrector plates should be provided.Report by V.C. Reddish entitled 'Southern Sky Surveys: Co-operation with ESO', 1972, with a letter from Reddish to...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding the Instrumentation Review Panel:Papers relating to the meeting of the Instrumentation Review Panel on 18 October 1972, regarding the agenda (IRP 3); classification of documents (IRP 2); membership list (IRP 3); I.R.P. present arrangements (IRP 4); and the I.R.P. Research Fellowship at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (IRP 5). The papers also include APG 229, V.C. Reddish's proposal for a focal reducer and a multi-star spectrometer...

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers regarding the Royal Greenwich Observatory Committee:Correspondence regarding topics to be discussed at the R.G.O. Committee, including a letter from Sir Martin Ryle giving his views on the forthcoming large telescope project and Northern Hemisphere Observatory; a paper giving the views of astronomers at the R.G.O. as to what should be provided at the Northern Hemisphere Observatory and what research they would like to do; an unsigned paper on the provision...

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A copy of a paper by V.C. Reddish entitled 'Review of Optical Astronomy in Northern Hemisphere. Large Alt-azimuth Telescopes', 17 April 1969.

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A copy of the script for 'The Night Sky in January' by Vincent Reddish on 'The Birth of a Star', regarding stellar formation and gas clouds, radio astronomy, current estimates for the age of the galaxies and the steady state theory.