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This entertaining text details the methods and techniques employed by non-professional astronomers from all over the world, providing a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to build a small observatory of almost any kind. Its a fun read, too. Almost every amateur astronomer dreams of having a fixed observatory - this provides ideas and constructional details. Ideas from around the world. Written for a broad audience, including non-astronomers.
| ISBN | 1852335726 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781852335724
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 372 | | Publisher | Springer London Ltd | | Published in | England | | Imprint | Springer London Ltd | | Series editor | Moore, Patrick | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series | | Publication date | 26 Jun 2002 | | Previous ISBN | 9783540199137 | | Non-book description | viii, 241 p. : | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Library of Congress | 2002070648 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 522.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 262 | |
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| 1 | | Garage and Garden Observatory by Peter Paice | | 1 | | 2 | | A Portable Observatory by Rob Johnson | | 19 | | 3 | | A User-Friendly Run-Off Shed for a 12-inch LX200 by Martin Mobberley | | 29 | | 4 | | Darklight Observatory, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA by Chris Anderson | | 41 | | 5 | | Turner Observatory by Bob Turner | | 55 | | 6 | | A Simple Rotating Observatory in Nottingham, England by Alan W. Heath | | 63 | | 7 | | St. Margaret's Observatory by Paul Andrew | | 69 | | 8 | | Ken Dauzat Observatory by Ken Dauzat | | 81 | | 9 | | A Lancashire Observatory - Part II by David Ratledge | | 93 | | 10 | | Arcturus Observatory by Paul Gitto | | 107 | | 11 | | Osmundsto Observatory: A Garage Observatory for CCD Imaging Located at the Shoreline of Southern Norway by Alf Jacob Nilsen | | 121 | | 12 | | Huntington Observatory, York by Mike Brown | | 153 | | 13 | | Ptolemy's Cafe by Bill Arnett | | 163 | | 14 | | The Construction of Starbase Two by Paul Zelichowski | | 175 | | 15 | | A Domestic Solar Observatory by George Kolovos | | 189 | | 16 | | Coddenham Observatory in Suffolk, England by Tom Boles | | 203 | | 17 | | Building the Crendon Observatory by Gordon Rogers | | 213 | | 18 | | The Marina Towers Observatory, Swansea by S. J. Wainwright | | 225 | | | | Contributors | | 239 | | | | About the CD-ROM | | 248 |
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