This guide provides useful insight for first-time telescope buyers as well as experienced amateurs. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of different types of telescopes, mountings, and accessories-ranging from refractors and reflectors to computer controlled drives and CCD cameras. The author also covers observation techniques, photographic equipment, astronomical software, as well as equipment care and maintenance.
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A perfect complement to Star Ware by Harrington,
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This review is from: Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) (Paperback)
Mobberley goes into a little more detail concerning mounts, photography and CCD imaging than Harrington. Although the book is biased towards SCT's and it has an english accent, he does an excellent job in his explanation of the practical limits of telescopes and accessories. I found it a perfect complement to Harrington's excellent, must have, Star Ware for anyone considering purchasing telescopes and accessories.
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Refracting telescopes ("refractors") focus light by using a lens (or "object glass", or "objective") as shown in Figure 2.1. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
planetarium package, periodic error correction, monocentric eyepiece, astronomical equipment, coma corrector, metre focal length, guiding eyepiece, planetary observing, amateur telescope makers, planetary imaging, eyepiece position, cold camera, micron pixels, equatorial mounting, barlow lens, eyepiece projection, solar filters, illuminated reticle, telescope focal length, planetary detail, achromatic refractors, planetary observers, corrector plate, occulting disk, planetary images Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Starlight Xpress, Tele Vue, Adobe Photoshop, Real Sky, Comet Hale-Bopp, Hubble Guide Star Catalogue, Nick James, Terry Platt, Denis Buczynski, Amateur Telescope Making, British Astronomical Association, Software Bisque, Andrew Elliott, George Alcock, Sky Atlas, Sky Publishing New!
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Refracting telescopes ("refractors") focus light by using a lens (or "object glass", or "objective") as shown in Figure 2.1. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
planetarium package, periodic error correction, monocentric eyepiece, astronomical equipment, coma corrector, metre focal length, guiding eyepiece, planetary observing, amateur telescope makers, planetary imaging, eyepiece position, cold camera, micron pixels, equatorial mounting, barlow lens, eyepiece projection, solar filters, illuminated reticle, telescope focal length, planetary detail, achromatic refractors, planetary observers, corrector plate, occulting disk, planetary images Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Starlight Xpress, Tele Vue, Adobe Photoshop, Real Sky, Comet Hale-Bopp, Hubble Guide Star Catalogue, Nick James, Terry Platt, Denis Buczynski, Amateur Telescope Making, British Astronomical Association, Software Bisque, Andrew Elliott, George Alcock, Sky Atlas, Sky Publishing New!
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- The Messier Album by John H. Mallas on page 125, and Back Matter
- Star Atlas by Rh Value Publishing on page 253, and Back Matter
- Colour Atlas of Galaxies by James D. Wray in Back Matter
- The Photographic Atlas of the Stars (UK edition) by Patrick Moore in Back Matter
- Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars by Patrick Moore in Back Matter
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- Observing Comets by Nick James in Front Matter, page 44, and Back Matter
- Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies: A New Approach to Observing Deep Space by Antony Cooke in Front Matter, and page 8
- Light Pollution: Responses and Remedies (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Bob Mizon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- More Small Astronomical Observatories by Patrick Moore in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Telescopes and Techniques: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by C. R. Kitchin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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