urn:taro:utexas.cah.03231 A Guide to the Harlan J. Smith Papers Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Original EAD encoding by Evan Hocker according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. January 2013 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Smith, Harlan J. Harlan J. Smith Papers 1953-1991 80 ft. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Materials are in English. Biographical Note

Dr. Harlan Smith was director of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory for 26 years, until his retirement in 1989. A native of West Virginia, he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard before teaching at Yale for ten years. Smith joined the University of Texas faculty in 1963. He also served as chair of the UT Department of Astronomy for 15 years and oversaw a period of great expansion for the department. Smith was instrumental in the design and building of a 107-inch telescope that debuted at the McDonald Observatory in 1965 and was also a key contributor to the development of the 8.5-meter spectroscopic telescope.

Among his many professional contributions, Smith discovered the variability of quasars, the effects of solar wind on radio emissions from Jupiter, and the existence of certain variable stars called dwarf Cepheids. Smith died in Austin in 1991.

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Far-reaching collection of Smith's professional papers, including correspondence, special projects, research files, travel, writing, teaching, grant proposals, telescope and observatory construction and development, and professional affiliations.

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 Inventory C1 Correspondence, alphabetical: C1 A-B C2 B-E C3 F-H C4 H-K C5 L-N C6 O-R C7 S C8 T-W C9 W-Z B409 Various files: B409 Article and journals, 1989 B409 Space solar power satellite B409 Correspondence, 1989 B409 Lunar base development lecture B409 Articles and correspondence, 1985-1989 B409 MOWG, 1987-1989 B410 Astronomy 308 B410 Grade books B410 Student papers B410 Radio astronomy, history B410 Photometry notes B410 Astronomy 101, Aurora, 1962-1963 B410 The Rotation Period of Saturn, McCullough B410 Astronomy 12, 1959-1963 B410 SCI II outlines B410 Stars, cepheid variables B410 Nucleogenesis B410 Spectroscopy, stellar B410 Spectrograph slits B410 Southern sky B410 Smithsonian contributions to astrophysics B410 Audience reaction to Stuja B410 Yale correspondence B410 Legal B410 New books B410 Jai Singh B411 Magazines B411 Articles, 1973-1989 B411 Observatory booklet articles B411 IAU colloquium proceedings, 1984 B411 ESO conference proceedings, 1977 B411 CHARA study, 1989 B411 Keck observatory report no. 90, 1985 B411 Lunar base model reference manual, 1988 B411 Brochures and newsletters B411 NASA technical memorandum 87775, 1986 B412 Next trip - McDonald B412 Notes B412 Visitors' Center B412 High Speed Photometer B412 Lunar base model user's manual B412 Lowell Obr, May 1981 B412 Notes and articles, 1976-1988 B412 Mars--Detection of Atmospheric Water by E. Barker and others, September 1970 B412 Keel Grp, September 1986 B412 Presentation to the NAS-COMPLEX summer study on the exploration of asteroids and comets, 1978 B412 Exobiology B412 Interplanetary B412 Historica Review of Theories of the Origin of the Solar System, 1962 B412 Correspondence and articles, 1986 B412 Space Development Workshop, Texas, 1986 B412 Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 1986 B413 Soviet Space Program 81-87, 1988 B413 List of Russian names, addresses for meeting in Russia, 1988 B413 Correspondence B413 Papers to write B413 Austin--to do B413 Astronomy site selection workshop B413 Committees B413 L-5 Society B413 NASA conferences, 1991 B413 Notes B413 ERA and Astronomy, Austin, 1978 B413 San Diego Reviews, November 1989 B414 To be filed B414 Card file B414 Space science boards B414 Scott Sawyer's dissertation, asteroids, 1991 B414 Travel, 1986-1990 B414 Accounting codes B415 What if Peace? B415 McGraw Transit B415 Articles and journals B415 Manufacturing: lunar materials B415 Inter-stellar flights B415 Heavy-lift vehicles B415 Human factors B415 Timothy Leary and other far-outs B415 Galactic travel and colonization B415 Congressional testimony B415 Cost-benefit analysis B415 Dangers (Meteoroids, etc.) B415 Engineering--structures B415 Books and reviews B415 Architecture and aesthetic B415 Orders, slides, etc. B415 Agriculture B415 Anthropology B415 O'Neill articles B415 Transport and trajectories B415 UFO B415 Solar sailing B415 Satellite solar power B415 References in space B415 Popular articles B415 Pictures B415 National Space Institute B415 Moon treaty B415 Materials processing B415 Vapor deposition - construction B415 Voyager: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus B415 War B416 Journals, booklets, conference proceedings, reports B416 Faint-object spectrograph for ST B416 Space astronomy, New York, December 1973 B416 An Overview of Lunar Astronomy, January 1986 B416 Moonbase B417 NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal B417 Macintosh files B417 25th Anniversary as Director of McDonald Observatory B417 Program decision package, 1978 B417 Appointment book B418 Envelope to Frank Martin B418 Annapolis, Lunar-based Astronomy, January 1990 B418 Lunar base, astronomy, Goddard, April 1990 B418 Maguire/Lunar bio ecology B418 Sci and global security article, October 1990 B418 Lunar Development Council, moon astronomy article B418 Workshop on astrophysics from the moon B418 N. Buddin--museum architectures B419 Seeing B419 Echosound B419 Canaries B419 L-miscellany B419 L-software reports B419 Pamphlets: organized research unit B419 Self study in Astronomy B419 McDonald Observatory history B419 IAU General Assembly B419 Travels, 1977 B419 105-inch UT dedication B419 UT news on telescope B419 Astronomy 392 B419 Indian article B419 UVITS B419 Long planning drafts, 1971 B419 Observatory council B419 Planetary Research Institute B419 Housing plan, 1971 B419 Laser article B419 McDonald Observatory contract B419 Annual reports, 1971-1972 B419 Personnel--classified position B419 Struve symposium B419 Photos of Struve dedication B419 Draft proposal to NSF, 1969 B419 Austin Amateur Astronomy B420 Harlan Smith award list B420 Westinghouse SEC tests B420 Uranus, Neptune, 1987 B420 L-Miscellany B420 Crate correspondence B420 Planetary monthly reports B420 Observing requests and schedules B420 IAI B421 AST 384, 1974 B421 AST 309C B421 AST 383 Variable Stars B421 AST 105 Variable Stars B422 Austin file B422 Bing, Ye B422 Daugherty, Brian B422 Fisk, Lennard B422 Gianforte, John B422 Harwit, Martin B422 Mendell, Wendell B422 Mulholland, Gerald B422 Reeves, Robert B422 Sherrill, Majorie B422 Trimble, Virginia B422 Wiegand, Ed B422 Wright, Charles B422 Stern, Alan B422 15th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics B422 Laser ranging B422 AAS B422 Student inquiries B422 Mercury atmosphere B422 URA B422 International Space University B422 Discovery program B422 Rahe, Jurgen B422 Post doc B422 Time sheets B422 Texas Space Grant Consortium B422 Visitors procedures B422 IAU B422 Libraries B422 Pay plan B422 MOW6 B422 Board of Visitors B422 SST B422 A6U - Chapman Conference B422 AIAA B422 International Academy of Astrophysics B422 Harlan Smith travel, 1981-1991 B423 NASA planetary proposal B423 Arlin Cratts B423 NASA project: Smith, Cochran B423 Planetary projects, 1987-1989 B423 Baker, Cochran, Smith NSF, 1985-1988 B423 NSF--Snedden, Lambert, Tull B423 General grant information B423 TARP B423 NASA B423 NSF project files B423 Southwest Research Institute project B423 LPI - USRA B423 Dudley B423 McDonald observing requests B423 UT proposals B423 NASA general proposal file B423 Annual reports B423 NASA directors B423 Proposal - Smith and Watts B423 Grants B423 Program of Planetary Study B423 NSF reviews B424 Short period variable stars notecard indexes B424 SP plates B424 Variable star data listings, positions, statistics B425 Hamburg, Kippenhahn, Lervell, M.T. Wilson B425 McDonald PEP B425 Nantucket, Paris, Russia, Sonnesburg B425 Warner and Swasey B425 Super - Schmidt B425 Yale B425 Reduction - Plane B425 Data correspondence B425 Graphs of plates measured twice B425 Quasar working miniatures B425 Correspondence B425 Color equations B425 Points to check B425 Historical light B425 Current graphs B425 Publications B425 Quasars - related papers B425 Yale Observatory B425 Period analyzers B425 Quasars: periodogram analyzers B425 Prints, slides B425 Radium B425 Photometry B425 Quasars B426 Quasars B426 William Kunkel thesis B426 Quasar: model, polarization, variability, B426 Photoelectric photometry tapes, circa 1963-1965 B426 Observatory history, pictures, letters 1930s B428 History of space flight B428 University of Texas conference B428 Telescope presentation notebook B428 LPL radical accelerometer B428 Wind, others B428 Viking spacecraft B428 NASA booklets B428 Figure control for a fully segmented telescope mirror B428 Erie workshop, computing B428 Mauritania and Niger lunar eclipse, June 1973 B428 Solar energy lectures B428 Solar heating and cooling of buildings B429 Schmidt B429 Ultraviolet Atlas of Large Magnetic Cloud B429 Space Assembly, Maintenance, and Servicing study B429 Catalog of Far Ultraviolet Objects B429 Final Frontier Magazine B429 SWAT file B429 Scientific and historical rationales for the solar system exploration B429 Programming directory B429 Space Station Freedom media handbook B429 Lunar base B429 NASA information kit B429 Austin: UT L-5 chapter B429 Space colony correspondence B429 L-5 Society B429 Hadley, Diana B429 Citizens Advisory Council on National Space Policy B429 Apollo follow-up B429 Space lab wide angle telescope reports B429 Palomar Observatory B429 Schmidt, SWAT, IAU B430 Reels of magnetic tape B430 Notebooks, graphs, data B431 Solar power satellite system B431 Electric power from orbit B431 LBJ Center distribution list B431 Code book B431 Workshop on satellite power systems B431 Space solar power research program B431 Solar power satellites B431 Rice University space solar power research program B431 Solar power satellite concept evaluation, 1977 B432 Travel, 1975-1984 B432 Calendars, 1963-1990 B433 Teaching, lecture notes, source materials, quizzes, circa 1954-1990 B434 300-inch telescope B434 Projected cost for Texas telescope, 1982 B435 300-inch telescope B435 Proposed by-laws and procedures of the McDonald Observatory Council B435 Film of McDonald Observatory B435 New Texas telescope project report B435 Funding and fundraising B435 Midland, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth B435 Science for the council B435 Solar eclipse B435 Budget request, 1974 B435 Davis Mountains Resort B435 Invites to senators and representatives B435 Visits and visitors B435 Director's reports, 1969-1970 B435 Council meeting notes B435 Congressman Jake Pickle - signed letters B435 Publicity - Joe King B435 Meetings, 1973-1975 B435 Astronomy program, organization and budgets B435 Suggestions for council agenda B435 Correspondence for meeting, May 1973 B435 Political activity B435 Travel records and vouchers, 1973-1976 B436 Trip reports B436 Technical bulletins for telescope B436 Scientific needs and uses of telescope B436 Primary mirror B436 Memos: Angel, Carr, Dittmar, Meinel B436 Performance specifications B436 Aerospace cost estimate B436 Ad Hoc review committee B436 Site selection committee B436 Active mirror feasibility - Lockheed B436 6th Texas Symposium B436 ADH Schmidt telescope B436 Astronomy Day B436 Faculty senate memos B436 McDonald organization B436 McDonald photo credits B436 Peridier Library B436 McDonald spectrum B436 Student observatory reports B436 11th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics B436 Department annual report, 1973-1974 B436 Budget council minutes B436 Budgets, 1975-1977 B436 Department of Astronomy - UT philosophy, policies, general description B436 R.L. Moore B436 Statistics - women in astronomy B437 Soviet space program B437 Possible configurations for telescope high performance enlarging camera B437 IAU paper B437 Space Schmidt telescope proposal B437 IR - focal plane B437 SPIE - Tuscon, 1982 B437 Conceptual design of 300-inch telescope B437 Design specification studies for 300-inch telescope B437 New Texas telescope project report B437 NSF proposal for 300-inch telescope B437 Optical design considerations B437 Soviet year in space, 1985 B437 Mirror reflectivity B437 300-inch telescope important relevant papers B437 Mechanical engineering design projects, 1984 B437 Preliminary report of the NNTT Scientific Advisory Committee B437 Book: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes B437 National new technology telescope B438 McDonald Observatory advisory council, board, and visitors, 1975-1984 B438 Telescope drawings B438 Randall talk B438 Harlan Smith telescope presentations B438 Administrative correspondence B438 Backup materials (telescope) B438 New members biographical sheets B438 GRO status B438 Light pollution B438 Advisory Council B439 Astronomy Department and McDonald Observatory administration and personnel, 1970-1980 B439 NASA: Texas 105-inch telescope project final report B439 Division of Arts and Sciences B439 Cook, Bobby (business manager) B439 Colvin, James H., V.P. for Business Affairs B439 DeWette, H.F.C., Assistant Dean B439 Flawn, Peter B439 Gribby, T.A., physics B439 Hackerman, Norman B439 Krueger, Bob B439 Lieb, Chet, Dean of Graduate Studies B439 Lott, H.C. B439 Minter, Norman B439 Dean Paul Olum B439 Rogers, Lorene B439 Ross, Stanley, Provost for Arts and Sciences B439 Ransom, Harry B439 Spurr, Stephen B439 Sutton, H. Eldon, V.P. for Research B439 Thedford, Betty Anne, Secretary of the Board of Regents B439 Walker, E.D., Chancellor B439 Whaley, W. Gordon B439 Wilcox, Bill B439 Legislative Budget Board B439 Carr, Billy B439 Senator Gary Hart, signed letters B440 Statistics B440 VAX B440 Summary of Astronomy Department self study, 1963 B440 Peridier B440 Long range astronomy department B440 Kuehne Library B440 Employment in Astronomy (Goldsmith) B440 Building space B440 Graduate faculty B440 Faculty and staff applicants B440 Staff and faculty minutes B440 Memos by Harlan Smith B440 Faculty retreats B440 Organizational charts for UT Astronomy Department B440 Africand, John B440 Breger, Michel B440 Butcher, Allan K. B440 Gaskell, Martin B440 Hansen, Gary B440 Kerry, Greg B440 Kilburn, Catherine B440 Laughlin, Curt B441 Trip reports, 1981-1983, 1989 B441 McDonald Observatory council, 1974-1976 B441 Fundraising, general B442 UT Astronomy Department Personnel 2/J478 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), chairmanship, 1980 2/J479 300-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory 2/J479 Pamphlets 2/J479 Motivations, history, weather 2/J479 Mirror support 2/J479 Viewgraphs 2/J479 Flawn review 2/J479 Committee meeting minutes 2/J479 Feasibility studies 2/J480 David S. Evans retirement conference and symposium, 1986 2/J480 Halley photo mailing, 1986 2/J480 Halley parties and speakers, 1986 2/J480 Austin Symphony benefit, 1986 2/J480 McDonald Observatory history 2/J480 Advisory Council minutes, 1973 2/J480 Annual reports, 1969-1972 2/J480 Quarterly status reports, 1964-1967 2/J480 105-inch telescope reports, 1964-1971 2/J480 Monthly reports, 1967-1971 2/J480 5-Year Plan, 1976 2/J480 Equipment--Westinghouse contracts 2/J480 McDonald inventory, 1965 2/J480 Photomultiplier tubes and photometers, 1972-1976 2/J480 Condition of McDonald optics, 1968-1971 2/J480 Microdensitometer, 1968-1975 2/J480 Instrumentation: Tube sensitometer and image tubes 2/J480 Image tube spectrograph, 1967-1968 2/J480 Filiar micrometer, 1964 2/J480 Image slicers, 1971 2/J480 82-inch Coude spectrograph, dome temperature recorders, and aluminizing chamber 2/J480 36-inch telescope, 1964-1972 2/J480 30-inch telescope, 1965-1968 2/J480 Lunar laser ranging history 2/J480 107-inch telescope: including damage and final report, 1970 2/J480 Instrument committee 2/J481 2.7m electric dome drive, 1984-1985 2/J481 Flip cage, 1980-1985 2/J481 PDS upgrade, 1982-1984 2/J481 TV controversy - Mallory, 1984-1985 2/J481 Faculty McDonald Research Awards, 1980-1984 2/J481 Observatory Committee, 1978-1982 2/J481 Legislative visit, 1984 2/J481 Personnel actions, 1980-1984 2/J481 2.7m laser decommissioning, 1985 2/J481 CCD specialist, 1983 2/J481 Photographer, 1980-1982 2/J481 Support scientist-Mt. Locke, 1978-1982 2/J481 Research Science Assistant II, 1979-1980 2/J481 McDonald and Astronomy blueprints 2/J481 McDonald lunch minutes, 1978-1979 2/J481 McDonald historical, Marlyn Krebs, 1983 2/J481 McDonald Observatory post doctoral applicants, 1979-1984 2/J481 McDonald reorganization, 1982-1983 2/J481 McDonald Observatory history 2/J481 McDonald deed, 1933 2/J481 McDonald (W.J.) family information 2/J481 McDonald historical data climatology 2/J481 McDonald monthly reports, 1970-1981 2/J481 Fire insurance, 1964 2/J481 McDonald building program, 1953-1960 2/J481 McDonald search for old plates by Cowleys, 1964 2/J481 State College and other university use of McDonald, 1973 2/J481 McDonald history, specifications for office, dormitory, garage, 1960 2/J481 McDonald improvements and repairs, up to June 1963 2/J481 82-inch telescope drawings, 1964 2/J481 Lecture program, 1953-1957 2/J481 Radio interference, 1963-1971 2/J481 Operations, 1959-1963 2/J481 Chile McDonald cooperative agreement, 1959-1961 2/J481 McDonald expansion: fiscal and NSF Grant, 1967-1970 2/J481 ARPA optical grant program, 1965-1967 2/J481 300-inch telescope ad hoc committee, 1984 2/J482 Astronomy Department historical memos and meetings, 1967-1977 2/J482 Struve historical, 1965 2/J482 McDonald and Astronomy budgets, 1961-1980 2/J483 Chronological correspondence: 2/J483 January 1970-May 1972 2/J484 June 1972-December 1974 2/J485 January 1975-December 1977 2/J486 January 1978-December 1980 2/J487 January 1981-December 1983 4.1a BOV executive committee 4.1a Texas Institute for Papers 4.1a Austin Council on Foreign Affairs 4.1a Chancellor's Council 4.1a 300-inch telescope summaries 4.1a Alignment 4.1a Davidson contract and correspondence 4.1a Polar axis adjustment 4.1a Sociology and economics 4.1a Political 4.1a The Nature of Space Law 4.1a Space Watch magazine 5.1a Marfa radio astronomy site 5.1a McDonald family 5.1a Vaughn/director coordinator 5.1a De Vaucouleurs, Paris, 1988 5.1a Lady base 5.1a McDonald seeing 5.1a Mexico CCP 5.1a PYI's 5.1a Roach letters and book 5.1a Pork barrel 5.1a SST: extinction telescope, optical, construction, model, administrative, and Cunningham 5.1a Cox/Green 5.1a Penny's idea 5.1b SST: funding and project meetings 5.1b Space debate 5.1b AURA - visiting committee 5.1b Visitors Center expansion 5.1b Highway Department 5.1b Committee for Research in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 5.1b 3-meter telescope 5.1b Uses of astronomy 5.1b NSO program place 5.1b AURA visiting committee 5.1b NOAO 5.1b2 Speech by Newt Gingrich 5.1b2 L5 News, 1976-1985 5.1b2 ADASTRA 5.1b2 Space Society, June 1989-September 1991 5.2a China 5.2a McNally 5.2a Bergon, J. 5.2a Local organizing committee 5.2a Publishing 5.2a IAU Colloquium 5.2a Protostars and planets 5.2a AAS Planetary Division membership 5.2a People (alphabetical): Ammar through Shu 5.2b People (alphabetical): Smith through Zhou 5.2b Russians 5.2b IAU rules 5.2b Japanese solar system astronomy 5.2b Publishing, programs, proposals 5.2b People (alphabetical): Abee through Whipple 5.3 Post-Halley correspondence 5.3 ESO large telescopes, 1988 5.3 Hawaii, 1989 5.3 Japanese telescope, 1988 5.3 Lick Observatory 5.3 LOISH workshop, 1989 5.3 Trips, 1985-1987 5.4a SETI program plan 5.4a AAS committees, membership, correspondence 5.4a AAS Council - ERA 5.4a AAS Planetary Sciences Division 5.4a AAS Austin 5.4a AAS committee: unemployment and employment in astronomy 5.4a AAS Warner Prije 5.4a Astronomical Society of the Pacific 5.4a AURA: correspondence, committees, reports, travel expenses 5.4a SETI review group 5.4a1 Astronomy from the moon 5.4a1 Strauman telescope 5.4a1 Breckenridge, Colorado 5.4a1 Challenger Center 5.4a1 International Relations in Space 5.4a1 International Space Corporation 5.4a1 LSPI 5.4a1 Lunar base 5.4a1 Lunar Base IC2 5.4a1 MCC Corporation 5.4a1 Menafee Foundation 5.4a1 Scientific aspects of global security 5.4a1 Seger, Chris 5.4a1 SICSA 5.4a1 Space Commerce Corporation 5.4b Conference on Life in the Universe: draft manuscripts 5.4b Extraterrestrial communication 5.4b NSF 5.4b SETI general 5.4b CSAA proposals, survey, correspondence, workshop 5.4b2 Space Commerce Corporation 5.4b2 Space meeting, 1988 5.4b2 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) 5.4b2 E. Trinidad 5.4b2 Malcolm Tweedy 5.4b2 UT Lunar Base Institute 5.4b2 USSR 5.4b2 Velikov 5.4b2 Washington, 1984-1990 T1 Teaching materials: T1 AST 309K T1 Academic problems T1 Truly Great Frontier T1 Self study units T1 Moon Struck T1 Rescue of Salyut 7 T1 Scientific theories T1 Sagan: Common Enemy T1 UTSEDS T1 Space organizations T1 Syllabuses and quizzes T2 AST 309K T2 AST 301K T2 AST 364 T2 AST 384 W1 Committees and Work Groups: W1 ASP lunar workshop W1 Texas Space Commission W1 Tuscan Near-Earth Space W1 Testing of small lunar-based telescopes W1 ILSE W1 Huntsville W1 American Scientist - dinosaurs W1 SETI - Congress, 1990 W1 NASA - McDonald Observatory W1 Lunar site selection W1 LEXWIG W1 Mark paper W1 Space observations W1 Keck Observatory W1 TOPS workshop W1 Astrophysics from moon W1 Meteor workshop W2 Management Operations Working Group, 1991 W2 IRTF MOW6 agenda, schedule, workshop, 1990 W2 Telescope schedule W2 Bibliography W2 NASA infrared telescope facility W2 Planetary Reviews, 1990 F1 Faculty and staff files: F1 Barker through Moseley F2 Nather through Tinsley A1 UT Administration, Texas State Legislature, State and Federal Officials: A1 Astronomy Department annual reports A1 Blumberg Professorship A1 Development Board A1 Ex-Students Association of UT Austin A1 Faculty/General - documents and minutes A1 Gregory pool A1 National legislators and officials A1 Phi Kappa Phi A1 Physical Plant - UT A1 Public Information Office A1 Public Lectures Committee A1 Final Report - 107-inch telescope A1 Five Year Plan, 1971 A1 Grievance procedure A1 Self-study, astronomy program, 1976 A1 Regents of UT A1 Regents' actions pertaining to astronomy A1 Research scientist status A1 Research professors A1 Senator Schwartz's letter, 1975 A1 State legislators and officials A1 Tenure A1 Texas State Legislature A1 Boyer, Robert A1 Clements, William A1 Coleman, Ronald D. A1 Cunningham, William A1 Fonken, Gerard A1 Franklin, G. Charles A1 Gleeson, Austin A1 Hobby, Bill A1 Kosmetsky, George A1 Livingston, William A1 Maguire, Bassett A1 Mark, Hans A1 Meadows, Mike A1 Monti, Stephen A1 Moseley, Gerry A1 Pickle, Jake A1 Richards, Ann A1 Sherman, Max A1 Tapley, Byron D. A1 Walls, Hugh A1 Wheeler, John A. M1 Astronomy Miscellaneous: M1 Astrolabes M1 Astrology M1 Amateur astronomer queries on telescopes M1 Articles (general) M1 Benfield, other fellowships M1 Extraterrestrials - where are they? M1 Fund for Extragalactic Research M1 Geophysics of McDonald M1 Hubble fellows M1 Indian Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy M1 Laser ranging M1 Marfa lights M1 Omicron Delta Kappa M1 Planetariums M1 Radio astronomy history at Yale and UT M1 Dunnam - Texas Space Foundation M1 Sofia - B-1 M1 Teaching load M1 Tenure M1 Trumpler Award M1 UFOs M2 Uranus Radio M2 Atmospheric optics M2 CCD M2 Harlan Smith research publications M2 IAU telegram M2 Blakemore-Holz M2 Chinguetti meteorite M2 Comets M2 Comet Encke, etc. (Anita Cochran's dissertation) M2 PUF M2 Diamond-turned optics, Los Alamos, UT meeting M2 Filters M2 Focal reducer M2 Reducing (and Grib) camera M2 Grism M2 Griboval camera objects M2 Computer programs - VSTHR, PFOUR M2 Dwarf cepheids M2 Halley comet M2 Helium M2 Image processing M2 Interference filters M2 AAAS Houston, 1979 M2 Large space telescopes, optical and radio M2 Mecatina crater M2 Meteorite craters M2 Minnesota automated plate scanner M2 NGT M2 Notions M2 Objective prism radial velocities M2 Hawaii chain - asteroid M2 Planetary detection M2 Project Firewheel M2 Plains of St. Augustine M2 Pluto observations M2 Quasar monitoring M2 Radial velocities, ultra-precise M2 Radial velocity system M3 Seeing M3 Solar cycles M3 Space bibliography M3 South Pole telescope M3 Drafts of space talks M3 Supernova, 1979 M3 107-inch telescope final report M3 VLA - Uranus M3 Marfa Lights M3 Phi Kappa Phi M3 Planck's Constant - variation M3 Instrumentation M3 Einstein's bending experiment M3 Gravitational waves M3 High velocity hydrogen clouds M3 Matsen M3 Mt. Wilson reprints list M3 Ozone M3 Fourier spectroscopes M3 Helium stars M3 Objective prism radial velocities M3 Instrumentation interferometers (Miller, Chicago) M3 Pulsars M3 Star chains M3 Speckle M3 Wachman M3 Solar System M3 AAS Meeting, 1967 M3 Research files: Mercury CO2 drafts M3 Airglow M3 Comets M3 Deuterium M3 Venus - aurora M3 Mars - JPL M3 Mars H2O - CO2 M3 Mars: Bolton Spectrum and papers M3 Mars: Owen Spectra and papers M3 Jovian red spot origin M3 Jupiter aurora M3 Jupiter spinrod effect M3 Planetary redshift tables M3 CH3O M3 Schmidt-Keiler Rings M3 Quasars M3 Finder program - Polomar sky survey M3 Quasar interpretation M3 Venus airglow (Levine) M3 Viking M3 Variable stars M3 Daily and hourly flux density variations radio sources, Beverly Wills M3 Intelligent Terminals, R.E. Nather M3 Absorption-line QSOs, C. Roger Lynds M3 Satellite Observations of Galaxies, Quasars, H.J. Smith M3 Search for 5C3 radio sources on 52-inch Schmidt plates M3 Various radio source observations, catalogs, etc. M3 Hypersensitization - photography M3 Dwarf cepheids M3 Supernova circular M3 Variable stars: eclipsing, spectroscopic binaries, etc. M3 H.J. Smith research in Air Force photometer M3 Computation basics M3 Metal mirrors research M3 3C273 research M3 Optical variability of 22 quasi-stellar objects M3 Intergalactic matter M3 H.J. Smith research - intergalactic matter M3 Tautenburg objects and papers M3 Positronium M3 Someday M3 M87 Jet Globular Cluster Centroid - displacement M3 Tornadoes M3 Laser analysis special relativity M3 McDonald observing program M3 Current eclipse M3 Massive x-ray sources, solar masses black holes from galactic halo M3 Terraforming, 1987 M3 Halleys Comet M4 Frizzell, Andy M4 Kimberley Warren M4 David Stoker M4 World order program M4 Astronomy classroom Welch Hall M4 Astronomy films M4 Astronomy undergraduate labs M4 Poems by students M4 AST 350k M4 Quotes, Newcombe M4 Undergraduate Astronomy Committee M4 Keller Plan M4 Grade percentages, AST 308 M4 BA Plan I M4 Undergraduate courses M4 Physics resource letter M4 Cosmology M4 Quasar lumina M4 Seminal topics M4 Student observatory - 9-inch telescope old Physics Building M4 Student opinions - rejectors of Texas Astronomy Department offer M4 Student records M4 AST 322, AST 304, AST 309, AST 384 M4 Teaching aids, 1974 M5 AST 350, AST 362, AST 386, AST 308 M5 Yale, AST 101 M6 Graduate student admissions M6 Department graphs M6 Enrollment, teaching statistics M6 Thesis and dissertation committees and rules M6 Potential employment for graduate students M6 Income tax M6 Memo to new grad students M6 Fellowships, traineeships M6 Scholarships M6 Minority fellowships M6 Teaching assistants M6 McDonald post-doctorals M6 Preliminary examinations M6 PhD and masters committees M6 Graduate students, alphabetical: M6 Abbot through Zarate M7 Berystrahl through Young, 1964-1968 M7 AST 392, AST 398T 2000-234/1 Correspondence, January 1984-January 1989 2000-234/2 USDP - University Science Development Program, 1970 2000-234/2 H.J. Smith proposals: 2000-234/2 NSF Construction and Installation of Controlled Casegrain Spectrograph, 1978-1979 2000-234/2 800 x 800 TI CCD for the Casegrain Spectrographs at McDonald Observatory 2000-234/2 Opal, Chet NASA Grant: A Sounding Rocket Experiment, 1984, 1985 2000-234/2 Smith/Cochran NASA request for equipment augmentation 2000-234/2 Smith/de Pater VLA/Uranus rotation by VLA 2000-234/2 Griboval camera Arkansas request 2000-234/2 Smith-Griboval URI Grant special equipment matching fund request, 1983 2000-234/2 Griboval-Smith Texas Electrographic camera 2000-234/2 Levine, Rush NASA Venus pioneer, 1978 2000-234/2 Rybski-Smith USAF photometric observatory study, 1978 2000-234/2 Slavsky/Smith Israel-US Binational Science Foundation 2000-234/2 Smith NASA study of Jupiter's ultraviolet ammonia absorption, 1976-1977 2000-234/2 University Research Institute (URI) 2000-234/2 NSF US-China cooperative 2000-234/2 NASA/UT solar system film 2000-234/2 Kelton/Cochran supercomputer access facility 2000-234/2 Cochran/Smith NSF prototype instrument for ultra high precision measurement/stellar radial velocity variations, 1982-1985 G1 National and international committees and organizations: G1 American Astronomical Society G1 Cosmos Club G1 National Academy G1 Lunar Development Council G1 NOAA G1 Texas Philosophical Society G1 Space Foundation - Houston - Wood G1 Space Grant Colleges G1 Scholia G1 Space Studies Institute G1 UT Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) G1 Space Business Roundtable G1 Star Trek Stamp Committee G1 Texas Faculty Association G1 Texas Association of College Teachers (TACT) G1 Southwest Regional Conference for Astronomy and Astrophysics G1 IAU Colloquium G1 China and Chinese G1 Warren, Kim G1 IAU Colloquium G1 Trip to China, 1988 G1 Master list of Chinese visitors (alphabetical): G1 Chang through Liu G2 Mei through Su G2 IAU commissions, bulletins, symposia, proposals, working groups, conferences, workshops G2 NAS/NRC G2 NSF proposal reviews G2 Reference reports - Harlan Smith