W.J. Cook (red).
Hardcover, twee delen. Over geavanceerde technieken van telescoopbouw. Een onuitputtelijke bron voor de liefhebber van zelfbouw. Samen circa 970 blz, circa 700 foto's en tekeningen, harde kaft.

Over a period spanning nearly 10 years Amateur Telescope Making Journal published articles of interest to the telescope maker. The Best of Amateur Telescope Making presents 150 the best of these articles, fully edited and where appropriate corrected by the original authors, in two volumes totaling nearly 900 pages with 692 illustrations. These are "How to Books" that cover a wide range of subjects of interest to people who design, build and use telescopes for astronomy. A sampling of the subjects are as follows:
Volume 1, 462 pages, 408 illustrations
Unobstructed Reflecting Telescopes; 17.5-Inch Binocular; A Schupmann Medial Telescope; A Wood and Aluminum Split-Ring Telescope; Industrial Fabrication of Small Lenses; Sub-Aperture Maksutov Correctors; The Stevick-Paul Off-Axis Reflecting Telescope; A New Equatorial Platform Design; The Eye and the Use of Telescope Optics; Improve Your Telrad; The Krupa Collimator; Telescopes For CCD Imaging; The Maksutov Telescope: Past and Present; Binocular Collimation; Tips for the Big Dobsonian Builder; The Voyager Binocular Telescope; Veiling Glare; Making Schmidt Correctors; YOLO Reflector; Annular Baffles for Barlow Lenses; Rangefinders and Stereo Telescopes

Volume 2, 422 pages, 284 illustrations
A 22-Inch Portable Telescope; Choosing a Wide-Field Telescope; Making Large Thin Mirrors; An Experimental Portable Observatory; Mirror Making and Testing Hints; Mirror-O-Matic Polisher/Grinder; Digital Knife-Edge Test Reduction; Design and Construction of a Modern Herschelian; Scrap Parts and the Life of the ATM; Figuring a Schmidt Corrector; A General-Purpose Yolo You Can Build; Evolution of a 10 x 70 Binocular; Test Methods for Elliptical and Spherical TCT Mirrors; An 8-inch Siderostat Refractor; An Ultralight Portable Dobsonian; The Multi-Schiefspiegler; A Binocular Singlet Refractor; Phase Contrast Testing; A Flat Tester Right Under Your Nose; A Portable Polar Siderostat; Lurie Anastigmats;

Additionally, both volumes provide coverage of various meetings featuring telescope making---such as Stellafane, Astrofest and the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference.

Prijs afgehaald, beide delen samen, € 80,-