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Sandage

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(Biography) Allan Rex.1926–2010, US astronomer, who discovered the first quasar (1961)

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In 1964, renowned Palomar Observatory astronomer Allan Sandage sent Rubin an application to compete for telescope time at Palomar, editing the form's warning, "Due to limited facilities, it is not possible to accept applications from women," to include "usually." She became the first woman to legally observe there.

Vera Rubin's universe: by looking at things others didn't think were interesting, the astronomer often labeled the "mother of dark matter" forever changed our picture of the cosmos

These Elements in the Periodic Tables at the Quantum Level mirror 2 Galaxy Periodic Tables that upgraded Edwin Hubble's Fork Tuning Galaxies classifications which was expanded by Gerard de Vaucouleurs and Allan Sandage. The Periodicity of both Elements of the Periodic Tables at the Quantum World and Galaxy Periodic Tables at the Cosmos Level are governed by the same laws since one mirrors the other and vice versa," says Ainuu Afamasaga.

"Albert Einstein's and Every Scientists' Dream of Unification of Gravity and Quantum Mechanic is Revealed by 24 DNA Company," Says 24 DNA Scientist Bob Ainuu Afamasaga.

In the 1970s, David Malin also found cirrus on images taken with the 1.2-meter UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, and Allan Sandage wrote about it and the scattering of optical light in 1975-76.

Herschel's ghosts

"Many objects hitherto regarded as very faint blue stars inside our own Milky Way are actually a strange variety of extremely distant galaxies, according to Allan Sandage of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories.

August 1965: Quasi-Stellar Things

"Blue stragglers" have been a mystery since Allan Sandage discovered them in 1953.

The secret of blue stragglers: they steal

Thank you for your comments in the March 2011 issue on the passing of several illustrious astronomers, particularly Allan Sandage ("A Quadruple Whammy for Astronomy," page 6).

Astronomer heroes remembered

A year later Allan Sandage measured a redshift of z = 0.05, corresponding to a distance of nearly 700 million light-years.

Blazar, blazar, burning bright: these exotic galaxies are some of the most distant objects visible through backyard telescopes

After I consulted several radio and optical astronomers in the US, Britain, and Australia, one of them realized that I had come across a portion of an extensive but little-known high-galactic-latitude dust complex that Allan Sandage (Carnegie Observatories) had written a paper about in the Astronomical Journal in 1976.

Unraveling the mystery of the Milky Way's giant dust clouds: a California astrophotographer stumbles upon an immense but little-known dust complex that pervades our home galaxy

Three years before, in 1960, Allan Sandage at Palomar Observatory

The outer limits: observing quasars at high redshifts: here's how I've collected portraits of quasars billions of light-years away

Volume I: The Mount Wilson Observatory Allan Sandage (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Centennial History of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: The Mount Wilson Observatory, vol.1

In addition to Hale, its staff included such luminaries as Edwin Hubble, Milton Humason, Walter Baade, Harlow Shapley, Fritz Zwicky, Allan Sandage, and many others.