Buy this book on-line MOORE**, PATRICK: : Astronomical Telescopes and Observatories for AmateursUK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON.DAVID & CHARLES,1973. ISBN 0715356151.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG++.Gift,
presentation inscrptn pasted to ffe,and a price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated yellow+black illustrated upper wrap with yellow letters,b/w publisher advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges with miniscule rubbing+chipping to corners - no major losses though.Top edges slightly dust-soiled and minimally aged with minimal,sporadic foxing/spotting, fore-edges similar but cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.Yellow, paper-covered boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip, and top+bottom edges of boards minisculely browned and generally clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5-256pp [paginated] includes contents+illus lists/ tables,author introduction,Pts 1+2 (Telescopes+Observatories) comprising 16 chapters,profuse b/w illus/diagrams etc. throughout the text and the book,16pp contemporary b/w photographs between pp192/3,contributors+reading lists,
and an index.
A collection of articles about equipment for the amateur astronomer,written by 15 British astronomers.Topics include reflecting telescopes,refracting telescopes,eyepieces,mountings,telescope photography,cinephotography,run-off observatories and observatory domes - all described in detail.
Patrick Moore,who needs no introduction as a regular TV astronomer,is director of the Lunar section of the British Astronomical association and is Editor of Astronomy & Space (then 1973).He was director of Armagh Planetarium in Northern Ireland from 1965-68 and is the author of many books and articles on astronomy.
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