All About Telescopes (Popular Optics Library) [Paperback]

Sam Brown (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Edmund Scientific Company; 5 edition (June 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0933346204
• ISBN-13: 978-0933346208
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,620,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy & Space Science > Telescopes

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book!, October 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Telescopes (Popular Optics Library) (Paperback)

I want to second what the Fair Oaks reviewer wrote about this book. In my case I bought it 32 years ago at the tender age of 11, right after it came out in 1967. As I've related to my older sister, I've made use of it pretty nearly every week since then, and *aat*, as I refer to it, continues to provide food for thought to this day. It has a real appeal to amateur astronomy. For example, just a couple of days ago, I was wondering how small a field could fit Saturn's major moons in it, and I knew where to find out in *aat*, on the planets page. This is just 1 example of the numerous tidbits that are hardly in other books.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introductory Text, January 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Telescopes (Popular Optics Library) (Paperback)

This book contains a surprising amount of information. While not greatly detailed, it does contain enough information for a beginner to build a small Newtonian from scratch, including doing the mirror grinding and diagonal flattening. I used it as my only reference on my first mirror. While the results were only a bit better than 1/4 wave - that may have been as much due to lack of experience and impatience than anything else.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, February 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Telescopes (Popular Optics Library) (Paperback)

This book was perfect for me as a high school student with an interest in astronomy. It had all the information I needed to grind my first telescope mirror and build my first telescope plus plenty to get me started on observing and celestial photography. This is one of my favorite books and I still use it today, 30 years after I purchased it.