Amateur telescope making
Subtitle: Book one
Edition: Fourth edition
Publisher: Scientific American
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
Copyright date: 1935
Table of contents: label: Part I
pagenum: Mirror Making for Reflectors          1
title: Chapter    I; title: Chapter   II
pagenum: Making the Mounting                     20; title: Chapter  III
pagenum: 100 foot Sun Telescope                  36; title: Chapter  IV
pagenum: Wrinkles                                       38; title: Chapter   V
pagenum: Adjustments                                 43; title: Chapter  VI
pagenum: Finding Celestial Objects                46; title: Chapter  VII
pagenum: Telescope Housings                        50; title: Chapter VIII
pagenum: The Prism or Diagonal                    52; title: Chapter   IX
pagenum: Optical Flats                                  57; title: Chapter    X
pagenum: The Cassegrainian                         62; title: Chapter   XI
pagenum: Making Eyepieces                          66; label: Part II
pagenum: The Amateur's Telescope          72
title: Chapter I; title: Chapter II
pagenum: Tools and Materials - Grinding   75; title: Chapter III
pagenum: Foucault Test                            82; title: Chapter IV
pagenum: Polishing                                    85; title: Chapter V
pagenum: Figuring                                      89; title: Chapter VI
pagenum: The Parabaloid - Zonal Testing   96; title: Chapter VII
pagenum: Silvering                                  101; title: Chapter VIII
pagenum: Mounting the Mirror                104; title: Chapter IX
pagenum: Achromatic Object-Glass           106; title: Chapter X
pagenum: Shaping and Grinding - Polishing 115; title: Chapter XI
pagenum: Testing and Figuring                  120; title: Chapter XII
pagenum: Mounting the Lens                    126; label: Part III
pagenum: Design of Mountings                         130; label: Part IV
pagenum: The HCF Lap                                     149; label: Part V
pagenum: Motor Drives                                    154; label: Part VI
pagenum: Silvering                                           157; label: Part VII
pagenum: Grinding and Polishing Machines       160; label: Part VIII
pagenum: Telescope Oculars              172
title: Chapter I; title: Chapter II
pagenum: Astronomical Oculars                    176; label: Part IX
pagenum: Solar Phenomena                 180
title: Chapter I; title: Chapter II
pagenum: Spectrohelioscope                         192; title: Chapter III
pagenum: Spectroheliograph                        203