Unusual Telescopes
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- Author: Peter L. Manly
- Date Published: April 1995
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521483933
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Excellence in observation is crucial to astronomy. Optical designers, engineers and astronomers have tried all kinds of novel ways to improve telescope design, in the quest for better and more accurate telescopes. In this book, Peter L. Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescope designs. They are all built by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need. This survey includes an inflatable telescope, and one with a liquid mirror. Every so often, a neglected design comes back into fashion: the largest telescopes now under construction use the alt-azimuth design that was ignored for over a century, and liquid mirror telescopes can be used for zenithal astronomy. The author shows why a particular engineering approach makes each telescope unique, and explains the rationale behind the design. The effects on telescope performance are also discussed where possible. This is not just a collection of weird and wonderful devices that proved to be false starts: the author includes the first instrument to measure star diameters, and the first useful radio telescope. This book is a resource and stimulus for anyone who likes to build astronomical telescopes.
Read more- Author is a skilled telescope designer
- Unique source book for telescope makers
- Packed with ideas for novel solutions to problems of telescope design
- If you want to build a telescope in a recycled VW Beetle this is the book for you!
Reviews & endorsements
'Anyone interested in the limits of human endeavour will get much pleasure out of it.' New Scientist
See more reviews'A mine of information on a huge range of unusual telescope optics, mounts and drives.' Astronomy and Space
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- Date Published: April 1995
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521483933
- length: 240 pages
- dimensions: 227 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- contains: 140 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Optics
2. Telescope mounts
3. Telescope and mount materials
4. Strange drivers
5. Moving the whole telescope
6. The moving eyepiece
7. The stationary eyepiece
8. Limits
9. Whimsy
Index.
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