Synopsis This guide for the backyard astronomer provides basic information, offers activity ideas, and gives construction details and assembly drawings for six telescopes.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-10-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 8.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 26.4 oz |
Publisher's Note See the night sky with a homemade telescope--from a small hand-held device to a large mounted one, all made with readily available, inexpensive materials. Discover hundreds of fascinating tidbits, and folklore and facts about comets, eclipses, constellations, and other phenomena. Learn the principles and variations of design, basic construction techniques and materials, how to repair and adapt older telescopes, how to take photographs through a telescope, and more.
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