Lyot's visit to Pasadena, California in the '50s.

Place:Edison Pettit's observatory in Pasadena. Shows Lyot, Pettit, and Nicholson. The image shows Pettit's 3 angstrom bandpass Interference Polarizing Monochromator mounted to his personal 6-inch Clark telescope at his home observatory in Pasadena. Pettit did all of the optical and machine work in his own machine shop.

Photo Credit: Larry Webster, Mount Wilson Observatory
 

 

 

 



Spirit of Lyot 2007

Conference Documents for Download

University of California, Berkeley

 

abstracts only (pdf, 35 pages, listed alphabetically, modified May 29)

agenda (pdf, 8 pages, modified May 29)

Lyot 2007 logo (jpg)

Lyot 2007 poster (jpg)

photos - same link as "Images" in the menu above

presentations - same link as "Agenda" in the menu above

presenter instructions (text)

program booklet (pdf, 56 pages, distributed at conference)

update - May 31 (text)