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Describes the structure and special features of a variety of binoculars and telescopes and discusses the use of these instruments for studying birds, stars, architecture and in other activities.

Van glasschijf tot telescoop : praktische handleiding voor het slijpen, paraboliseren en testen van spiegels voor telescopen en voor de bouw van een Newton-type kijker met Dobson-montering

Jährlich 60 Millionen Besucher, 200 000 Sitzplätze weltweit - die Anziehungskraft der Planetarien auf die Menschen war und bleibt ununterbrochen. Anlaß genug für den Wissenschaftler Ludwig Meier, die mehr als zweitausendjährige Geschichte dieser so…

This book is an compilation of articles from the newsletter "Maksutov Circulars", a telescope building organization dedicated originally to building Maksutov telscopes, an original, creative idea for telescope design largely fallen out of favor due…

Space telescopes are among humankind’s greatest scientific achievements of the last fifty years. This book describes the instruments themselves and what they were designed to discover about the Solar System and distant stars. Exactly how these…

In this book, Peter Manly surveys more than 150 unusual telescope designs. These are telescopes built by amateur and professional astronomers to suit some special need. There is, for instance, an inflatable telescope and one with a liquid mirror.…

Call it a rite of passage. Call it the first step on an exciting journey. Call it what you want, but buying a first telescope is a leap of faith. For the beginning astronomer it is a gamble -- a hunch concerning the nature of a hobby not completely…