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My Heavens!: The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-The-Top Observatory

My Heavens!: The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-The-Top Observatory

Rogers, Gordon

Paperback

Series: Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy

Biographies GeneralAstronomy & SpacePhysics

Publisher Price: $34.99

ISBN10: 0387737812
ISBN13: 9780387737812
Publisher: Springer
Published: Dec 6 2007
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.13 Depth: 9.19
Language: English

My Heavens! describes how to set up a high class amateur observatory. Written by a qualified building surveyor, it looks at the planning, building and construction from a professional viewpoint. The book tells the warts and all story of small beginnings in amateur astronomy, leading to the construction of a top of the range observatory at a house on the edge of a country village between Oxford and London. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA. Eventually an observatory materializes, set up to facilitate the taking of very high quality images of the deep sky. The story doesn't end with the construction of the observatory, but goes on to describe the author's choice of equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining superb astronomical images like those displayed in his book.

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