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Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer s Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Buying, and Using Telescopes and Accessories

Star Ware: The Amateur Astronomer's Ultimate Guide to Choosing, Buying, & Using Telescopes and Accessories
from Jossey-Bass
Price: $15.42

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This is a well written book. Everything is neatly arranged. The author provides explanations of common terms like focal ratio, eye relief, and many more. He also provides a history of the various types of telescopes as well as a comparison of the various uses. Phil S. Harrington did a excellent job... more info

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The Sextant Handbook: Adjustment, Repair, Use, and History
from International Marine Publishing Co

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Excellent reference and maintenance manual. Has a permanent place in my navigation kit. Wish I had read this before buying my sextant, although, I most likely would not have understood it all without a sextant in my hand. Everything from alignments, checks, adjustments, cleaning, maintenance... even... more info

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Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers)
from Cambridge University Press

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I loved it,... i though me EVERY thing about CCDs,...how do they work...and how to understand the results....

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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator
from Cambridge University Press

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If you're a beginning astronomer, the recipes in this book are well written out and you can port them easily to a calculator, computer or even a spreadsheet if you so wish. So it's a very good book indeed. But... You're left with a certain feeling that you want to know more. Where do all those fancy... more info

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Radiotelescopes (Cambridge Monographs on Physics)
from Cambridge University Press

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This book should be next on your reading list if you want an in-depth and rigorous study of Ayn Rand's ethics of Rational Egoism beyond what you can glean from reading Ayn Rand's novels and non-fiction essays. First of all, although this book is philosophically rigorous, it is highly readable.... more info

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Build Your Own Telescope
from Scribner Book Company

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Although the book's helpful for learning how telescopes work and how they're made, the real purpose of the book is to show how to make five telescopes. That's why people supposedly buy it, given its title. But the truth is that the plans suck. He doesn't label parts in his diagrams. The dimensions... more info

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Astronomy on the Personal Computer
from Springer-Verlag

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This book does not use c-like/c++ but true c++. It begins with Vec3D class hiding private menbers. I learn many things of objective astronomical calc from this book.

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Telescopes and Techniques: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy
from Springer

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This book leaves much to be desired of it as far as content is concerned. Although all basic--and not so basic--aspects of introductory astronomy are covered here, this is done in an extremely superficial way. Every topic is only touched upon, in most cases, in a couple of pages maximum, giving only... more info

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The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
from Harper Perennial
Price: $16.50

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I've been fascinated with the 200" Hale telescope on Mt Palomar since I read "The Glass Giant of Palomar" as kid. "The Perfect Machine" meets the highest standard you can apply to a non-fiction book--it reads like a novel. Not only does it correct the many errors and omissions of "The Glass Giant of... more info

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Hubble Vision: Astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope
from Cambridge University Press

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One of the greatest achievements in the history of humanity with regard to observational astronomy has to be the Hubble Space Telescope, our first real opportunity to see the universe 'up close and personal', in the visual light spectrum (among other spectra) without the interference of the earth's... more info

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