Full Description
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.
Contents
1 Garage and Garden Observatory.- 2 A Portable Observatory.- 3 A User-Friendly Run-Off Shed for a 12-inch LX200.- 4 Darklight Observatory, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.- 5 Turner Observatory.- 6 A Simple Rotating Observatory in Nottingham, England.- 7 St Margaret's Observatory.- 8 Ken Dauzat Observatory.- 9 A Lancashire Observatory — Part II.- 10 Arcturus Observatory.- 11 Osmundstö Observatory: A Garage Observatory for CCD Imaging Located at the Shoreline of Southern Norway.- 12 Huntington Observatory, York.- 13 Ptolemy's Café.- 14 The Construction of Starbase Two.- 15 A Domestic Solar Observatory.- 16 Coddenham Observatory in Suffolk, England.- 17 Building the Crendon Observatory.- 18 The Marina Towers Observatory, Swansea.- Contributors.- About the CD-ROM.