Submillimeter common-user bolometer array

Description

Telescope detector or telescope camera, Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA-1), used on James Clerk Maxwell telescope, Hawai'i, retired 2005, by Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, 1995

Museum reference

T.2009.106

Collection

History of Science

Object name

Submillimeter common-user bolometer array, Telescope detector, Telescope camera

Production information

Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, Manufacturer
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1995

Materials

Metal

Associations

Maxwell, James Clerk, 1831 - 1879
Place of use: Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia

Exhibitions

• Earth in Space (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 1 »
natural world, earth in space »
space (different ways of seeing)