Talk:Infrared astronomy

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A more meaningful wavelength division between visible and infrared observations is 1 μm, the red limit for the silicon detectors used for optical observations. Korandder (talk) 08:56, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

What makes infrared astronomy different and useful compared to other types of astronomy? What can an astronomer see from infrared radiation versus other types radiation? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.33.160 (talk) 19:27, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Removed ALMA image as irrelevant

ALMA Observatory’s antennas appear to take in the sight of the Milky Way.

ALMA is a radio telescope not infrared surely ? - Rod57 (talk) 19:45, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

References

Could mention tasimeter in History

Could also mention astronomical use of Edisons Tasimeter in 1878 The Astronomical register 1878 p309 - Rod57 (talk) 23:52, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Article Evaluation

Article Evaluation on "Infrared Astronomy"

Everything in the article is relevent to infrared astronomy. It begins with the origins of infrared radiation when scientist William Herschel performed an experiment in 1800 where he placed a thermometer in sunlight of different colors after passing it through a prism. He realized that the different colors of light were different temperatures, the highest temperature being outside the visible spectrum just beyond the red color. The article goes down the timeline of infrared astronomy by explaining various inventions that helped kickstart the field all while staying relevent to the topic.

The article mentions modern advancements in the field as well as new infrared telescopes that were built within a the past ten years. This prevents the article from being out of date.

There exists no bias in the article. It is an informative article that provides a clear timeline of how the field of infrared astronomy came to be and what it is now.

All the links embedded in the citations within the article seem to work. Each citation goes directly to a wikipedia page that thoroughly talks about the subject the citation came from. However, there does seem to be a lot of information that wasn't cited. For example, the entire 'History' section only has six citations despite the fact that this section contains the most amount of information within the wikipedia article. The section starts off by explaining how infrared radiation was discovered without even citing any sources. The citations that are included are not biased and includes a lot of important information relating to infrared astronomy.

The talk page, unfortunately, isn't populated with any conversations. It is a rather short page that only contains a few questions to spark a conversation. The questions included: "What makes infrared astronomy different and useful compared to other types of astronomy? What can an astronomer see from infrared radiation versus other types of radiation." However, no one seemed to answer the questions.

Havelr (talk) 20:45, 15 November 2018 (UTC) havelr