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Making Your Own Telescope (Dover Books on Astronomy) - Softcover

Thompson, Allyn J.

 
9780486428833: Making Your Own Telescope (Dover Books on Astronomy)

Synopsis

Complete, detailed instructions and numerous diagrams for constructing a do-it-yourself telescope. No complicated mathematics are involved, and no prior knowledge of optics or astronomy is needed to follow the text's step-by-step directions. Contents cover, among other topics, materials and equipment; tube parts and alignment; eyepieces, and related problems; setting circles; and optical principles. 6 plates. 100 figures.

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Synopsis

Based on a series of articles written for Sky and Telescope 50 years ago, this handbook provides instructions for grinding and polishing mirrors in an amateur laboratory, mounting them in a handmade telescope, and setting the circles and equatorial adjustment. A reprint of the revised edition published in 1973 by Sky Publishing Corp. Annotation (c)

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