My Heavens!
Autor: | Gordon Rogers |
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EAN: | 9780387737836 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 28.10.2007 |
Untertitel: | The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-the-Top Observatory |
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Schlagworte: | Observatories amateur astronomy books astronomy building an observatory telescope dome construction |
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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.
Gordon Rogers lives in England. He is a qualified building surveyor, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as well as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. His beautiful deep-sky images regularly appear in the astronomical magazines. He contributed a chapter to More Small Observatories, by Sir Patrick Moore (Springer, 2002). He lives in what is probably the only traditional English part-thatched cottage to feature an observatory dome!