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The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes
The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes
by David Kriege and Richard Berry
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This book tells how you can build a state-of-the-art Dobsonian telescope using readily available materials and supplies. Every step of construction is detailed in photographs and diagrams, and the underlying ideas are carefully explained. As a result of... (read more)

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Introduction to Lens Design
Introduction to Lens Design
by Joseph M. Geary
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This book is based on an introductory lens design course taught in the Optical Science & Engineering doctoral program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and sponsored by the Center for Applied Optics. The book?s thirty-eight chapters follow... (read more)

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Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes 2ND Edition
Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes 2ND Edition
by Harold Richard Suiter
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The star test is a powerful but inexpensive way of obtaining better resolution and contrast. With this book most observers will find that they don't need a new telescope because they now can test, diagnose and fix the one they have. Using Star Testing... (read more)

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Build Your Own Telescope 3RD Edition
Build Your Own Telescope 3RD Edition
by Richard Berry
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For anyone who has ever dreamed of exploring the heavens with a telescope, Building Your Own Telescope can make that dream come true. In clear, step-by-step instructions, author Richard Berry tells how to build five telescopes, from a simple reflecting... (read more)

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Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal: Volume 1
Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal: Volume 1
by William J. Cook
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Over a period spanning nearly 10 years Amateur Telescope Making Journal published articles of interest to the telescope maker. The Best of Amateur Telescope Making presents 150 the best of these articles, fully edited and where appropriate corrected by... (read more)

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Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal: Volume 2
Best of Amateur Telescope Making Journal: Volume 2
by William J. Cook
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Over a period spanning nearly 10 years Amateur Telescope Making Journal published articles of interest to the telescope maker. The Best of Amateur Telescope Making presents 150 the best of these articles, fully edited and where appropriate corrected by... (read more)

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Astronomy with Small Telescopes: Up to 5-Inch, 125 MM (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,)
Astronomy with Small Telescopes: Up to 5-Inch, 125 MM (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,)
by Stephen F Tonkin
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Small telescopes, whether simple beginners' telescopes or refined computer-controlled instruments, are gaining popularity fast as technology improves and public interest increases. In this book the author has brought together the experience of small... (read more)

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Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science
Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Textbook for Materials Science
by David B Williams
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This profusely illustrated text on Transmission Electron Microscopy provides the necessary instructions for successful hands-on application of this versatile materials characterization technique. The new edition also includes an extensive collection of... (read more)

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Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy #4: Grating Spectroscopes and How to Use Them
Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy #4: Grating Spectroscopes and How to Use Them
by Ken M Harrison
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Transmission grating spectroscopes look like simple filters and are designed to screw into place on the eyepiece tube of a telescope for visual use, or into a camera adapter for digicam or CCD imaging. They are relatively inexpensive and by far the... (read more)

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Telescopes and Techniques: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (Practical Astronomy)
Telescopes and Techniques: An Introduction to Practical Astronomy (Practical Astronomy)
by C R Kitchin
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Chris Kitchin has written an easy-to-read book explaining how to use a small telescope and find your way around the sky. Covering all the basic topics - telescopes, optics, positions and motion, observing, and instruments - Telescopes and Techniques has... (read more)

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Optical Design of Microscopes
Optical Design of Microscopes
by George H. Seward
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Optical design consultant Seward provides a tutorial on designing the optical elements of microscopes for practitioners and students who have a background either in optics or in microscope design. Most chapters use nothing more than simple plots and... (read more)

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Adventures with a Microscope
Adventures with a Microscope
by Richard Headstrom
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With a simple microscope and this book you can embark on 59 exciting adventures in the natural world — make discoveries about the structures of numerous microscopic animals; find out what everyday objects and foods really look like at the cellular... (read more)

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Practical Astrophotography
Practical Astrophotography
by Jeffrey Charles
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For all but the simplest star-trail pictures, photographing the night sky involves machinery to track the stars, and the task becomes even more complicated when photographing very small or very faint objects that require high magnification or very long... (read more)

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High-Operating-Temperature Infrared Photodetectors
High-Operating-Temperature Infrared Photodetectors
by Jozef Piotrowski
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Cryogenic cooling has always been a challenging part of sensitive infrared (IR) systems, adding weight, size, cost, power consumption and inconvenience to what is otherwise an efficient and efficacious design. Concentrating on the latest developments... (read more)

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Optical System Design
Optical System Design
by Robert Fischer
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An easy-to-use book that takes the math and the mystery out of optical design. Uses a grtaphics-oriented approach, making optical design techniques easy to understand through hundreds of detailed diagrams. A comprehensive one-stop resource for optical... (read more)

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Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy #2: One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging: In Less Time, for Less Money!
Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy #2: One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging: In Less Time, for Less Money!
by L A Kennedy
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Anyone who has seen recent pictures of the many wondrous objects in space has surely been amazed by the stunning color images. Trying to capture images like these through your own telescope has always seemed too time-consuming, expensive, and complicated.... (read more)

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Novel Optical Materials and Applications
Novel Optical Materials and Applications
by Iam Choon Khoo
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The unique physical, optical, and electronic characteristics of novel optical materials are the objects of intense research and applications in optical communication, signal and image processing, and information storage. Until now, however, no single... (read more)

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Practical Multi-Projector Display Design
Practical Multi-Projector Display Design
by Aditi Majumder
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Large-area high-resolution displays are essential for scientific visualization, entertainment, and defense applications. A popular way to realize such displays is to tile multiple projectors together to create one large display. As opposed to a 19... (read more)

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Telescopes and Techniques (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
Telescopes and Techniques (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
by C R Kitchin
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Telescopes and Techniques has proved itself in its first two editions, having become probably one of the most widely used astronomy texts, both for amateur astronomers and astronomy and astrophysics undergraduates. Both earlier editions of the book were... (read more)

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Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols
Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols
by Stephen W Paddock
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Stephen Paddock and a highly skilled panel of experts lead the researcher using confocal techniques from the bench top, through the imaging process, to the journal page. They concisely describe all the key stages of confocal imaging-from tissue sampling... (read more)

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