The Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal Volume 2

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These "How to Books" cover a wide range of subjects of interest to people who design, build and use telescopes for astronomy.

Over nearly 10 years, the Amateur Telescope Making Journal published articles of interest to the telescope maker.

The Best of Amateur Telescope Making presents 150 of the best of these articles, fully edited and, where appropriate, corrected by the original authors, in two volumes totalling nearly 900 pages with 692 illustrations.

Product Information: 429 pages, 284 illustrations (ATMJ's issues 12 through 18).

Edited by William J. Cook.

A sampling of the subjects are as follows: 

• A 22-Inch Portable Telescope
• Choosing a Wide-Field Telescope
• Making Large Thin Mirrors
• An Experimental Portable Observatory
• Mirror Making and Testing Hints
• Mirror-O-Matic Polisher/Grinder
• Digital Knife-Edge Test Reduction
• Design and Construction of a Modern Herschelian
• Scrap Parts and the Life of the ATM
• Figuring a Schmidt Corrector
• A General-Purpose Yolo You Can Build
• Evolution of a 10 x 70 Binocular
• Test Methods for Elliptical and Spherical TCT Mirrors
• An 8-inch Siderostat Refractor
• An Ultralight Portable Dobsonian
• The Multi-Schiefspiegler
• A Binocular Singlet Refractor
• Phase Contrast Testing
• A Flat Tester Right Under Your Nose
• A Portable Polar Siderostat
• Lurie Anastigmats

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