More Small Astronomical Observatories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook More Small Astronomical Observatories write by Patrick Moore. This book was released on 2012-12-06. More Small Astronomical Observatories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This entertaining text details the methods and techniques employed by non-professional astronomers from all over the world, providing a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to build a small observatory of almost any kind. Its a fun read, too. Almost every amateur astronomer dreams of having a fixed observatory - this provides ideas and constructional details. Ideas from around the world. Written for a broad audience, including non-astronomers.
Small Astronomical Observatories
Small Astronomical Observatories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small Astronomical Observatories write by Patrick Moore. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Small Astronomical Observatories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Small Astronomical Observatories, Patrick Moore has collected descriptions of amateur and small professional observatories currently in use in Europe and America, showing how many astronomers have built their own observatory, often with effective and sometimes extraordinary improvisations to reduce the cost. There is a photograph of each, along with details of its construction and a foreword written by Patrick Moore. In addition to providing a fascinating study for its own sake, Small Astronomical Observatories offers a unique fund of ideas and practical details for anyone who wants to build an amateur or small professional observatory.
Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction
Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction write by David Arditti. This book was released on 2007-12-20. Setting-Up a Small Observatory: From Concept to Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arditti’s approachable work covers the all the details of design, siting and construction – once a basic type has been decided upon. It is written in a way that is equally applicable to the USA and UK (where there are slightly different building regulations) and deals with matters that are basic to building and commissioning any amateur observatory. Uniquely, David Arditti also considers the aesthetics of amateur observatories – fitting them in with family and neighbors, and maybe disguising them as more common garden buildings if necessary. Every amateur astronomer who wants a purpose-built observatory (and let’s face it, which one of them doesn’t?) will find this book invaluable.
My Heavens!
My Heavens! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Heavens! write by Gordon Rogers. This book was released on 2007-10-28. My Heavens! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My Heavens! charts the progress of the author’s own substantial observatory from conception, through design, planning and construction, to using an observatory of the kind that all amateur astronomers aspire to own. For those with more modest ambitions, the book offers many hints, tips and design features for smaller observatories. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA. The story doesn’t end with the construction of the observatory, but goes on to describe the author’s choice of equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining superb astronomical images like those displayed in his book.
Observatories of the Southwest
Observatories of the Southwest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Observatories of the Southwest write by Douglas Isbell. This book was released on 2016-12-15. Observatories of the Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With its clear skies and low humidity, the southwestern United States is an astronomer’s paradise where observatories like Kitt Peak have redefined the art of skywatching. The region is unique in its loose federation of like-minded research outposts and in the quantity and diversity of its observatories—places captured in this unique guidebook. Douglas Isbell and Stephen Strom, both intimately involved in southwestern astronomy, have written a practical guide to the major observatories of the region for those eager to learn what modern telescopes are doing, to understand the role each of these often quirky places has played in advancing our understanding of the cosmos, and hopefully to visit and see the tools of the astronomer up close. For each observatory, the authors describe its history, highlights of its contributions to astronomy—with an emphasis on recent results—and information for visitors. Also included are wide-ranging interviews with astronomers closely associated with each site. Observatories covered range from McDonald in Texas to Palomar in California, with significant outposts in between: Arizona’s Kitt Peak National Observatory southwest of Tucson, the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, and the Whipple Observatory outside Amado; and New Mexico’s Very Large Array near Socorro and Sacramento Peak close to Sunspot. In addition to describing these established institutions, they also take a look ahead to the most powerful ground-based telescope in the world just beginning to operate at full power on Mount Graham in Safford, Arizona. With more than three dozen illustrations, Observatories of the Southwest is accessible to amateur astronomers, tourists, students, and teachers—anyone fascinated with the contributions that astronomy has made to deepening our understanding of humanity’s place in the universe, whether exploring the solar system from Lowell Observatory or studying the birth of stars using the army of giant radio telescopes at the Very Large Array. This book aims to inspire visits to these sites by illuminating the major scientific questions being pursued every clear night beneath the dark skies of the Southwest and the amazing machinery that makes these pursuits possible.
