| 书目名称 | My Heavens! | | 副标题 | The Adventures of a | | 编辑 | Gordon Rogers | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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.For those with more | | 丛书名称 | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .My Heavens! charts the progress of the author’s own substantial observatory (with additional material from amateur constructors of large observatories elsewhere) from conception, through design, planning and construction, to using an observatory of the kind that all amateur astronomers would aspire to own...This 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. The author is a qualified building surveyor, and looks at building the observatory from his own professional perspective. There were of course many errors, problems, technical and organizational difficulties along the way, and the author never shies away from admitting his mistakes – and in doing so he reduces the chances of others falling into the same traps. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA, taking a look at the differences and similarities in planning and building regulations, and in construction methods on both sides of the Atlantic...Eventually an observatory materialized, set up to facilitate the taking of very high quality images | | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | | 关键词 | Observatories; amateur astronomy books; astronomy; building an observatory; telescope dome construction | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73783-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-0-387-73781-2 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-73783-6Series ISSN 1431-9756 Series E-ISSN 2197-6562 | | issn_series | 1431-9756 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2008 |
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