A half century of infrared astronomy — A personal recollection of the footprints in Japan

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  • OKUDA Haruyuki
    Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan.

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  • A half century of infrared astronomy : A personal recollection of the footprints in Japan

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<p>Since the new era of infrared astronomy was opened by the Two Micron Sky Survey by Neugebauer et al. in the early 1960s, about a half century has passed. During this time, observations have expanded rapidly and widely, to almost every field of astronomy, to reveal new perspectives on the universe. As a result, infrared astronomy has become one of the major branches of astronomy, along with optical, radio, X-ray as well as high-energy particle astronomy. In Japan, we started our infrared astronomical activities at a rather early time, under relatively poor technical and environmental conditions, and using somewhat unconventional methods to overcome these difficulties. Here, a brief survey is presented of developments concerning infrared astronomy during the past half century, while mainly recollecting our footprints in the stream of world activities.</p>

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