Making Your Own Telescope
by Thompson, Allyn Joseph
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Making Your Own Telescope by Allyn Joseph Thompson
Publisher is Sky Publishing, Cambridge, MA, Ninth printing, 1967Hardcover
5.5 x 8.7 inches, 211 pages
Book presents complete and detailed instructions and numerous diagrams showing how to construct 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, which also offer instruction in the fundamentals of practical optics.Contents: 1. Story of the Telescope. 2. Materials and Equipment. 3. Mirror Grinding. 4. The Pitch Lap. 5. Polishing-Testing-Correcting. 6. The Paraboloid. 7. The Diagonal. 8. Tube Parts-Alignment-The Finder. 9. Eyepieces and Related Problems. 10. The Mounting. 11. Aluminizing and Cleaning. 12. Setting Circles-Equatorial Adjustment. 13. Optical Principles-Atmosphere-Magnitudes. 14. A Second Telescope. Appendixes. Index.
Publisher is Sky Publishing, Cambridge, MA, Ninth printing, 1967Hardcover
5.5 x 8.7 inches, 211 pages
Book presents complete and detailed instructions and numerous diagrams showing how to construct 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, which also offer instruction in the fundamentals of practical optics.Contents: 1. Story of the Telescope. 2. Materials and Equipment. 3. Mirror Grinding. 4. The Pitch Lap. 5. Polishing-Testing-Correcting. 6. The Paraboloid. 7. The Diagonal. 8. Tube Parts-Alignment-The Finder. 9. Eyepieces and Related Problems. 10. The Mounting. 11. Aluminizing and Cleaning. 12. Setting Circles-Equatorial Adjustment. 13. Optical Principles-Atmosphere-Magnitudes. 14. A Second Telescope. Appendixes. Index.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Making Your Own Telescope
- Author
- Thompson, Allyn Joseph
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- condition - small jacket edge tears
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good- condition - small jacket edge tears
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Ninth printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sky Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1867
- Pages
- 211
- Size
- 5.5 x 8.7 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Non-fiction, Astronomy, telescope
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