Into this breach step Rutten and van Venrooij, two Dutch astronomers who wanted to know more about optics but found that resources were generally unavailable to amateurs. So, they wrote their own. Telescope Optics is a compendium of optical…
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…