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The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
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I've been fascinated with the 200" Hale telescope on Mt Palomar since I read "The Glass Giant of Palomar" as kid. "The Perfect Machine" meets the highest standard you can apply to a non-fiction book--it reads like a novel. Not only does it correct the many errors and omissions of "The Glass Giant of Palomar," but it weaves interleaving stories in a f... »
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Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy
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You can think of this as a course in very specialised antenna design. Certainly, the broad concepts would be immediately recognisable to any engineer who has built antennas. But here the sources that are being detected are at far reaches indeed. Correspondingly, the sizes of each radio dish far exceeds your typical antenna in industrial or military use... »
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Reed's Sextant Simplified
There are a number of books that give on advice on what to look at with a sextant. Pike does mention appropriate targets for navigation, such as the Sun,... »
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Build Your Own Telescope
Although the book's helpful for learning how telescopes work and how they're made, the real purpose of the book is to show how to make five telescopes. T... »
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