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	JRULM: Special Collections Guide: Zdenek Kopal Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Zdenek Kopal (1914-1993) was Professor of Astronomy at Manchester University from 1951 until 1981, during the era of the `Space Race', the development of satellites and lunar exploration.
		Kopal was born in Litomysl in eastern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and his interest in astronomy developed during adolescence (he published his first paper at the age of sixteen).
		Kopal developed the Astronomy Department to achieve international status, and was instrumental in establishing the Manchester Lunar Programme, the lunar mapping project which paved the way for the Apollo missions.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/kopal (156 words)

	transient lunar phenomena (TLPs)
		Shortly after a large flare erupted on the Sun in 1963, Zdenek Kopal and Thomas Rackham at Pic du Midi Observatory in southern France photographed a local brightening around the craters Copernicus, Kepler, and Aristarchus.
		Kopal proposed that energetic particles from the flare caused lunar rocks to fluorescence.
		Such activity might be expected especially at full phase when the Moon passes through the Earth's magnetosphere, where solar wind particles become trapped.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/T/TLP.html (626 words)

	Zdenek Svestka Czech-born solar physicist - 25-09-2002 - Radio Prague
		The Czech Astronomical Society are awarding doctor Zdenek Svestka, a Czech-born solar physicist with the Nusl Prize, the highest award given to scientists for lifelong contribution in the field of astronomy.
		Zdenek Svestka was born in Prague in 1925.
		Zdenek Svestka never lost touch with Czech astronomy and he is glad that unlike some other areas of research - it did not deteriorate during the grim years of the so-called normalisation in the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/32700/limit (1372 words)

	Professor Zdenek Kopal (1914-1993) - from Litomysl to NASA - 13-04-2004 - Radio Prague
		Professor Zdenek Kopal (1914-1993) - from Litomysl to NASA
		Zdenek Kopal left Czechoslovakia in 1938, after finishing his university studies.
		And this is how Professor Zdenek Kopal envisaged a future space telescope, twenty-five years before the Hubble Space Telescope was actually launched into orbit.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/52701 (532 words)

	Kopal Zdenek 1914 Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca. 1968. AIP International Catalog of Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kopal Zdenek 1914 Response to History of Modern Astrophysics Survey, ca.
		Kopal, Zdenêk, 1914- Of stars and men: reminiscences of an astronomer.
		Questionnaire with brief, typed responses, in which Kopal refers often to his published memoir, Of Stars and Men: Reminiscences of an Astronomer (UK: Adam Hilger, 1986).
	www.aip.org /history/catalog/icos/6605.html (132 words)

	Roche Model
		As the distance from the point mass increases, the shape of the equipotential surface elongates in the direction of the center of gravity, until the two surfaces ``touch'' in a roughly ``hour-glass'' form (refer to Fig.
		Zdenek Kopal (1955) identified three general types of binary systems, based on the degree to which each stellar surface fills its critical Roche lobe.
		Evidence exists for these gaseous streams of matter in the spectrum of the binary as spurious spectral features with varying radial velocities that are inconsistent with the Keplerian radial velocities of the components.
	mintaka.sdsu.edu /faculty/quyen/node10.html (835 words)

	Numerical Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Zdenek Kopal, professor of astronomy at Manchester University from 1951-1981, was born on 4 April 1914 at Litomysl in eastern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic).
		The project gave considerable prestige and funds to the Manchester department, and Kopal was much in demand all round the world as a space consultant.
		Kopal was known as a charming, highly intelligent, eccentric scientist.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/archivehub/kophub.sgm (478 words)

	[astroCS] conference - ZDENEK KOPAL'S BINARY STAR LEGACY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Institute Ondrejov, Academy of Sciences of CZ Pavel Mayer Astronomical Institute, Charles University, Prague, CZ Zdenek Mikulasek Inst.
		The selected oral contributions and posters will be published in a special proceedings issue of the Kluwer journal Astrophysics and Space Science, which was founded by Kopal.
		The account is identified by the reference number, but you can add also "Kopal conference".
	www.ta3.sk /cgi-bin/toCP852.en/pipermail/astrocs/2004q1/000199.html (1318 words)

	Review 0146
		Professor Zdenêk Kopal has lived and practised astronomy throughout this efflorescense of his subject and has entitled his book
		And certainly, a review of his life discovers before our eyes a great number of surprising episodes, lived in the first person, and transmitted with an exceptional ingenuity.
		Kopal, a professor emeritus of astronomy at the Manchester University, subtitles his work with the phrase
	www.amazings.com /sbb/reviews/review0146.html (283 words)

	ZDENEK KOPAL'S BINARY STAR LEGACY
		While previous variable star meetings were held at Brno Planetarium, this conference in honour of Prof.
		Kopal will exceptionally take place at the castle of the marvelous Bohemian town of Litomysl, Kopal's birth place.
		The organizers hope that the meeting will not only help to remind Zdenek Kopal as an esteemed colleague and outstanding astronomer, but will also serve to present new aspects and trends in binary star research and as a forum for discussion among astronomers from many countries.
	astro.sci.muni.cz /variables/kopal/content.php?topic=socaloc (180 words)

	Amazon.ca: Investigating the Universe: Papers Presented to Zdenek Kopal on the Occasion of His Retirement, September ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Amazon.ca: Investigating the Universe: Papers Presented to Zdenek Kopal on the Occasion of His Retirement, September 1981: Books
		Investigating the Universe: Papers Presented to Zdenek Kopal on the Occasion of His Retirement, September 1981
		Top of Page : Investigating the Universe: Papers Presented to Zdenek Kopal on the Occasion of His Retirement, September 1981
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/9027713251 (179 words)

	QUATAVOLUTION SERIES (15 VOLUMES) -ALPHABETIC CONCORDANCE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kondratov, Alexander Kopal, Zdenek Koran Korea kosher kosmos Kosmos-s Kotelnoi island Kotor,
		Alexander Kopal, Zdenek Koran Korea kosher kosmos Kosmos-s Kotelnoi island Kotor,
		Kopal, Zdenek Koran Korea kosher kosmos Kosmos-s Kotelnoi island Kotor,
	www.grazian-archive.com /quantavolution/QuantaHTML/alphabetic/c2539.htm (1710 words)

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		A transition book, mixing the old (still valuable material on dynamics of the Moon, photometry, eclipses, etc.) with the new geologic approach to the Moon (Shoemaker on "Interpretation of Lunar Craters").
		Kopal was one of the leading figures in lunar research in the 1960s before Apollo.
		He was a professor of Astronomy at the University of Manchester, UK, and organized many conferences and edited a number of lunar books.
	www.lpod.org /cwm/Timeline/1960s/1962-kopal.html (100 words)

	Gravitational Equipotential Surfaces
		These two surfaces coincide because surfaces of gravitational equilibrium between two finite masses would exert zero net force on a particle placed there, in effect, allowing the particle to have zero velocity in the rotating frame of reference.
		Zdenek Kopal (1955, 1959, 1978) extensively explains the mathematics developed to apply equipotential surfaces to the study of binary stars.
		The critical equipotential surfaces around each component is the Roche limit or critical Roche lobe of that star.
	mintaka.sdsu.edu /faculty/quyen/node19.html (291 words)

	Craters on Planets and Moons
		The geologist, William Morris Davis, wrote in 1922 that "astronomers tended to explain the craters of the Moon by volcanic action, a geologic process, while geologists tended to explain them by meteoritic action, an astronomic process--each scientist evidently feeling free to take liberties with a field other than his own."
		The Czech astronomer Zdenek Kopal was a lone voice when he scrupulously pointed out that the word "crater" should be used without presupposing the mechanism of its origin.
		That is, astronomers should not add the description "volcanic", "impact", or anything else to the word crater.
	www.thunderbolts.info /tpod/2004/arch/041115craters.htm (449 words)

	Publications
		Pustylnik I. Resolving the Algol Paradox and Kopal's Classification of Close Binaries with Evolutionary Implications, In: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Kluwer Publishers, eds.
		Kalv P., Harvig V., Pustylnik I. BM Cas a long period eclipsing binary with a supergiant and common envelope, In: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Kluwer Publishers, eds.
		Pustylnik I. Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy International Conference, Astronomical and Astrophysical Transactions 23, 441-442.
	www.aai.ee /~izold/list.html (1761 words)

	Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kopal, Zdenêk; klepeta, Josef; and Rackman, Thomas W.: Photographic Atlas of the Moon.
		Kopal, Zdenêk (ed.): Physics and Astronomy of the Moon.
		Wilkins, H. Percy; and Moore, Patrick: The Moon-A Complete Description of the Surface of the Moon, Containing the 300-Inch Wilkins Lunar Map.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /resources/lunar_orbiter/book/bibliography.shtml (350 words)

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		Budding: A fellow's view of Kopal's royal road to binary stars A.
		Cherepashchuk: Atmospheric Eclipses in Wolf-Rayet Binaries: from Kopal and Shapley to Present Days M.
		Miloslav Zejda Horst Drechsel chairperson of LOC chairperson of SOC Other events: Saturday-Sunday Congress of the Czech Astronomical Society 3-4-Apr Public lessons Sunday 11:00 Unveiling of a tablet at Kopal's house 4-Apr More information and a Conference Application Form are available at http://var.astro.cz/kopal [Source: http://var.astro.cz/kopal/announce.txt, abbreviated here]...........................................................................
	www.astro.uni-bonn.de /~pbrosche/aa/enha/enha53.txt (3022 words)

	Edward Pigott (1753 - June 27, 1825)
		This discovery occurred just 12 days before that by Bode and roughly a year before Messier's independent rediscovery of this object.
		Perhaps because of its late publication, Pigott's original discovery fell more or less forgotten, although the paper is mentioned on a few occasions, e.g., in the British "Dictionary of National Biography" (Clerk 1896), "The Dictionary of Scientific Biography" (Kopal), and McConnell and Brech (1999).
		It remained unnoticed, at least in the standard treats on deepsky discovery, and his "nebula" was apparently never identified, until Bryn Jones of Wales recovered it in April, 2002.
	www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/pigott.html (556 words)

	The Supernatural World :: Moonlit mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		So is the moon, supposedly a lifeless chunk of basaltic rock, undergoing periodic volcanic activity?
		In1963 Zdenek Kopal observed that a significant TLP event occurred during a major solar flare-up.
		He suggested particles from these vast electromagnetic emissions caused moon rocks to glow, particularly when the moon is passing through the Earth's magnetosphere.
	www.thesupernaturalworld.co.uk /index.php?act=print_article&topic_id=2860 (353 words)

	ZDENEK KOPAL'S BINARY STAR LEGACY
		Close Binaries: A study of proximity effects and gravity darkening based on Kopal's Fourier method
		Resolving the Algol Paradox and Kopal's Classification of Close Binaries with Evolutionary Implications
		RR CrB and Algol - the first and last star in Zdenek Kopal's life with binaries
	var.astro.cz /kopal/content.php?topic=papers (633 words)

	Eclipsing Binary Stars (Article)
		Robert E. Wilson, "Eccentric Orbit Generalization and Simultaneous Solution of binary Star Light and Velocity Curves", Astrophysical Journal, vol.
		Zdenek Kopal, Language of the Stars, D. Reidel, 1979.
		Zdenek Kopal, The Roche Problem, Kluwer Academic, 1989.
	www.physics.sfasu.edu /astro/ebstar/ebstar.html (1064 words)

	ZDENEK KOPAL'S BINARY STAR LEGACY
		Pustylnik: Resolving the Algol paradox and Kopal's classification of close binaries with evolutionary implications (I45)
		Friedjung: Towards an understanding of a radial velocity shift in UV spectra of symbiotic binaries (C15)
		20:30 Unveiling of a Kopal monument at his birthplace
	astro.sci.muni.cz /variables/kopal/content.php?topic=schedule (540 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		But most astronomers don't think there are volcanoes on the moon.
		In 1963, Zdenek Kopal saw a significant TLP event during a major solar flare.
		He thinks particles thrown off by solar flares cause moon rocks to glow.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news?id=4167 (326 words)

	Appendix A
		Letter from Sir William Herschel to the Rev. Dr.
		Nevil Maskelyne, June 12, 1780, as reprinted in Zdenek Kopal, The Moon (New York: Academic Press Inc., Publishers, 1964), pp.
		Account as reprinted in David Lasser, The Conquest of Space (New York: Penguin Press, 1931), p.
	history.nasa.gov /SP-4210/pages/App_A.htm (2259 words)

	David Darling
		I went to New Mills Grammar School and then on to Sheffield University, where I earned my B.Sc.
		in physics in 1974, and Manchester University, for my Ph.D. in astronomy in 1977, while Zdenek Kopal was the department head.
		Around the time I left Manchester I met my future wife and decided to move to the States.
	daviddarling.info /me.html (434 words)

	Amazon.ca: Of Stars and Men: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Space Book Board (White Rocket Press) WWW, March 1997
		A major autobiography of one of the twentieth century's most respected astronomers, Zdenek Kopal.
		Since the beginning of his professional career in the early 1930s Professor Kopal, as observer, outstanding theoretician, populariser, editor and teacher, has been closely involved with the evolution of astronomy.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0852745672 (209 words)

	April 2004 - - Web Software & Hosting
		Apr/ 1: International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
		Apr/ 2: International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
		Apr/ 3: International Conference: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy, Litomysl, Czech Republic
	www.gigfoot.net /calendar/2004/Apr.html (2124 words)

	Zdeněk Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
		Solc: RR CrB and Algol - the first and last star in Zdenek Kopal's life with binaries (C30)
		A.M. Cherepashchuk: Atmospheric eclipses in WR+O binaries: from Kopal and Shapley to present days (I45)
		Budding: Multiwavelength Study of the Algol System delta Lib (I45)
	dumbell.sci.muni.cz /kopal/schedule.htm (502 words)

	Advances in astronomy and astrophysics. Volume 1. - KOPAL, ZDENEK, 1914- ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		KOPAL, ZDENEK, 1914- ED Advances in astronomy and astrophysics.
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	www.antiqbook.nl /boox/boe/76841.shtml (50 words)

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