Amateur Telescope Making

Amateur Telescope Making
Author: Stephen Tonkin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1447105672

This book provides an introduction to the design of a variety of telescopes, mounts, and drives suitable for the home-constructor. Projects include instruments that range from a shoestring budget to specialist devices that are not commercially available. The skill level of each project is indicated and advice is provided as to what is sensible to construct, given what is commercially available. Hints and tips are included, as well as listings of reputable mail order sources of materials and components.

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques
Author: Daniel Malacara Hernández
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 793
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1498720684

Advanced Optical Instruments and Techniques includes twenty-three chapters providing processes, methods, and procedures of cutting-edge optics engineering design and instrumentation. Topics include biomedical instrumentation and basic and advanced interferometry. Optical metrology is discussed, including point and full-field methods. Active and adaptive optics, holography, radiometry, the human eye, and visible light are covered as well as materials, including photonics, nanophotonics, anisotropic materials, and metamaterials.

Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements

Advanced Optics Using Aspherical Elements
Author: Bernhard Braunecker
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2008
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0819467499

Modern optical systems rely on leading-edge production technologies, especially when using aspherical optical elements. Due to the inherent complexity of aspheres, all efforts to push the technological limits are risky. Thus, to minimize risk, clear decisions based on a good understanding of technology are indispensable. This compendium is written as an optical technology reference book for development and production engineers. With contributions from worldwide experts, this book aids in mitigating the risk in adopting new asphere production technologies.

The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design

The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design
Author: Jingquan Cheng
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2010-03-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0387887911

This book presents a complete summary of the author's twenty five years of experience in telescope design. It provides a general introduction to every aspect of telescope design. It also discusses the theory behind telescope design in depth, which makes it a good reference book for professionals. It covers Radio, Infrared, Optical, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray wavelengths. Originally published in Chinese.

Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments

Mounting Optics in Optical Instruments
Author: Paul R. Yoder
Publisher: SPIE Press
Total Pages: 784
Release: 2008
Genre: Optical instruments
ISBN: 0819471291

Entirely updated to cover the latest technology, this Second Edition gives optical designers and optomechanical engineers a thorough understanding of the principal ways in which optical components - lenses, windows, filters, shells, domes, prisms, and mirrors of all sizes - are mounted in optical instruments.Along with new information on tolerancing, sealing considerations, elastomeric mountings, alignment, stress estimation, and temperature control, two new chapters address the mounting of metallic mirrors and the alignment of reflective and catadioptric systems.The updated accompanying CD-ROM offers a convenient spreadsheet of the many equations that are helpful in solving problems encountered when mounting optics in instruments.

Advanced Amateur Astronomy

Advanced Amateur Astronomy
Author: Gerald North
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997-08-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521574303

This book, first published in 1997, is for telescope owners wanting to improve their skills and make observations of real and lasting scientific value.