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Date: 21 Jul 2006 11:51:46
From: A. Pismo Clam
Subject: Book for Constructing Dobsonian Mounts
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Hello All,
Does anyone know if such a book exists, even in e-book fashion?
I've tried B&N, Amazon and Border's with no success.
All suggestions will be most gratefully received!
Alain...Palomar Mountain
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Date: 21 Jul 2006 12:15:01
From: Jan Owen
Subject: Re: Book for Constructing Dobsonian Mounts
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The Dobsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture
Telescopes (Hardcover) by David Kriege and Richard Berry
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943396557/sr=1-1/qid=1153509152/ref=sr_1_1/104-8413219-3291908?ie=UTF8&s=books
Build Your Own Telescope by Richard Berry
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943396697/sr=1-1/qid=1153509106/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8413219-3291908?ie=UTF8&s=books
I hope these links from Amazon work... In any event, it appears that they
have the Kriege/Berry book, or they can arrange purchase of a used Berry
book...
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Jan Owen
To reach me directly, remove the Z, if one appears in my e-mail address...
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"A. Pismo Clam" <opalockamishabob@'86DASPAMyahoo.com > wrote in message
news:YqKdnVjrZcmiv1zZnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@got.net...
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone know if such a book exists, even in e-book fashion?
>
> I've tried B&N, Amazon and Border's with no success.
>
> All suggestions will be most gratefully received!
>
> Alain...Palomar Mountain
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Date: 22 Jul 2006 10:46:22
From: laura halliday
Subject: Re: Book for Constructing Dobsonian Mounts
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A. Pismo Clam wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone know if such a book exists, even in e-book fashion?
>
> I've tried B&N, Amazon and Border's with no success.
>
> All suggestions will be most gratefully received!
Try the specialized publishers, like Sky & Telescope
or Willman-Bell.
While there are lots of books out there (I too like
Berry's books), my main reference when I built a
Dob a few years ago was looking at pictures.
I got the optics from the local Synta distributor,
bought the sonotube, plywood and assorted hard-
ware from a local building supply store, made the
mirror cell from an article in Sky & Telescope, bought
an offcut of sheet teflon from a local industrial plastic
supplier, and scrounged a couple of 16mm movie film
cans (a Berry suggestion) from a local photography
store's junk bin to use as side bearings. It works fine,
as reported in this very forum (do a search for "A Dob
is Born").
Like many of the best ideas, how a Dob works is
blindingly obvious - but only after John Dobson
thought of it.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "That's a totally illegal,
Grid: CN89mg madcap scheme. I like it!"
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - H. Pearce
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