Telescopes Books


Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes: A Manual for Optical Evaluation and Adjustment Best Price: $31.95 Mr. Suiter is a professional physicist whose avocation is star-gazing with modest amateur...	How to Use a Computerized Telescope: Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1 (Practical Amateur Astronomy) Best Price: $21.95 Learning about Telescopes, this is a great first time /review of things you for got and thing...	Telescope Optics : Complete Manual for Amateur Astronomers Best Price: $24.95 I totally disagree with Mladen K. Vranjican's review "- Page 127, line3. The book...	Prehistoric Astronomy in the Southwest Best Price: $6.34 Malville and Putnam bring an interesting and informative study with "Prehistoric Astronomy...	The Guide to Amateur Astronomy Best Price: $63.10 I first saw this book at my local library and this book is very good. There are some out dated...



The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope Best Price: $12.95 I've been fascinated with the 200" Hale telescope on Mt Palomar since I read "The...	Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook: Double Stars Best Price: $12.00	More Small Astronomical Observatories Best Price: $28.19 It a good book but it is out to date ,it is a good think who some one make a new book for this...	Unusual Telescopes Best Price: $59.90 This book is NOT about telescope building or optical construction. It is a tour of the odd and...	How To Use An Astronomical Telescope Best Price: $1.99 As a beginner in astronomy I hoped for a book to hold my hand each step of the way, but I got...



Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Buying, & Using Telescopes and Accessories Best Price: $1.51 This is a well written book. Everything is neatly arranged. The author provides explanations...	High Resolution Astrophotography (Practical Astronomy Handbooks) Best Price: $12.95 As Jean Dragesco says in the final conclusion in this book: "This book is quite probably...	Advanced Telescope Making Techniques Best Price: $7.00 This book is an compilation of articles from the newsletter "Maksutov Circulars", a...	Astronomy Through the Telescope: The 500 Year Story of the Instruments, the Inventors, and Their Discoveries I think this is a grand book for the amateur astronomer and telescope afficianado. Learner has...	Introductory Astronomy Exercises Best Price: $47.81 Ferguson's flexible and useful INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY EXERCISES, Second Edition, provides...

Astrophotography: Featuring the Fx System of Exposure Determination Best Price: $14.75 This book is really a gem. While it covers all aspects of astrophotography, including...	The Starry Room: Naked Eye Astronomy in the Intimate Universe Best Price: $3.94 There are three books I read again every year: Baseball Anecdotes by Daniel Okrent and Steve...	Amateur Astronomer's Handbook Best Price: $7.00 Originally published in 1955, this reprint is of the 3rd (1971) edition. In our era of...	Concise Catalog of Deep-sky Objects: Astrophysical Information for 500 Galaxies, Clusters and Nebulae Best Price: $24.98 At last. A Guide to telescopically observable deep-sky objects that also contains astrophysical...	Build Your Own Telescope Best Price: $27.27 Although the book's helpful for learning how telescopes work and how they're made, the real...

The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, Use, and History Best Price: $19.75 This is not a book that will teach you how to use a sextant. What it will do is give you an...	Small Astronomical Observatories (Practical Astronomy) 'Small Astronomical Observatories' is not your ordinary astro book. It shows you a number of...	Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy Best Price: $144.00 You can think of this as a course in very specialised antenna design. Certainly, the broad...	Urban Astronomy Best Price: $1.67 Tackles commensense issues such as weather conditions. Beautiful illustrations of the seasonal...	Spherical Astronomy I am only aware of a few books on the subject of spherical astronomy (which might be summarized...

Making Your Own Telescope This book was interesting, and helped my 80 year-old father to take up a hobby that has always...	Seeing the Solar System: Telescopic Projects, Activities, and Explorations in Astronomy (Wiley Science Editions) Best Price: $12.95 The author provides the reader with a vast amount of projects regarding the sun, moon, planets...	The Observing Guide to the Messier Marathon: A Handbook and Atlas Best Price: $28.00 This well thought out book is an excellent source for those of us who are pursuing the entire...	The glass giant of Palomar, The original account of the building of the 200-inch telescope, predating Florence's...	The Design and Construction of Large Optical Telescopes Best Price: $95.17 Since I work for a privately held observatory engaged in the construction of a new telescope and...

Software for Photometric Astronomy Best Price: $211.16	Deep-Sky Observing With Small Telescopes: A Guide and Reference I found this book to be very helpful in selecting objects to observe. The book is very well laid...	Amateur Radio Astronomers Hand Best Price: $21.00	The Hubble Wars: Astrophysics Meets Astropolitics in the Two-Billion-Dollar Struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope, With a New Preface Best Price: $11.87 Frankly, I enjoyed the atsropolitics perspective of the Hubble Space Telescope [HST] but several...	Yerkes Observatory, 1892-1950: The Birth, Near Death, and Resurrection of a Scientific Research Institution Best Price: $40.77 Yerkes observatory, of the University of Chicago, played a major role in the development of...

Positional Astronomy and Astro-Navigation, Made Easy With a Calculator	Astronomical Methods and Calculations	Amateur Astronomer and His Telescope	Instrumentation for Ground Based Optical Astronomy: Present and Future (Santa Cruz Summer Workshops in Astronomy and Astrophysics) Best Price: $144.95 This workshop was attended by leaders in the field of astronomical instrumentation from over a...	High Speed Astronomical Photometry (Cambridge Astrophysics)

Astrophotography: An Introduction (Sky & Telescope Observer's Guides) Best Price: $8.25 I'am happy to comment on what a great book this is, I just wish I would have read it earlier....	The Explorers of Mars Hill: A Centennial History of Lowell Observatory, 1894-1994 Best Price: $121.41	Ccd Astronomy: Construction and Use of an Astronomical Ccd Camera Best Price: $11.95	Stargazing for Beginners Best Price: $52.99	Astronomer's Computer Companion Best Price: $1.53 I wanted to like this book but in the end I have to wonder what the purpose of buying a book...

Hubble Vision: Further Adventures with the Hubble Space Telescope Best Price: $85.33 This is a book about big science in space. The hubble telescope was the most complex piece of...	Handbook for Star Trackers: Making and Using Star Tracking Camera Platforms	Classics in Radio Astronomy (Studies in the History of Modern Science) Best Price: $275.00	Astronomy on the Personal Computer Best Price: $111.70 This book does not use c-like/c++ but true c++. It begins with Vec3D class hiding private...	The Cambridge Guide to Stargazing with your Telescope Best Price: $4.08 This is an appealing digest-sized guide that tells you everything you need to know before buying...

Flash!: The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe Best Price: $19.20 A few billion years after the Big Bang, a giant star ends its life in a spectacular explosion. ...	A Practical Guide to CCD Astronomy (Practical Astronomy Handbooks) Best Price: $128.00 To much theory and not enough application. At the end of the book I was still looking for the...	Ships Chronometer Best Price: $570.13 This book is considered the authority reference book for American Marine Chronometers, and more...	The abundance of the elements (Interscience monographs and texts in physics and astronomy)	Deep-Sky Objects for Binoculars I am big fan of binocular astronomy. Always searching for books related to this subject. I...

The Evolution of Radio Astronomy, Best Price: $29.45	Astronomical spectroscopy (A Survey of astronomy)	Radio astronomy for the amateur

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