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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

Small telescopes have a lot to recommend them. Cost is of corse a consideration, but their more positive feature is sheer portability. Some manufacturers have tried to make large telescopes more portable (with mixed success), but the opposite approach, that of making small telescopes more efective, is what this book is all about.

Simple - but good - 60 mm telescopes are now available for beginners, and major American manufacturers now offer small, affordable computer-controlled instruments that are capable of superb results. Stephen Tonkin has gathered the experience of users of small telescopes to provide this insight into just what is possible - wether you're a newcomer to astronomy or simply need a telescope you can always take along with you.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

-Contents.

-Introduction.

-I. Refractors.

1. Upgrading a 60 mm Refractor.
2. Experiences with a 60 mm Telescope.
3. Observing with a 60 mm Refractor.
4. The Orion ShortTube 80 mm Rich-field Refractor.
5. Visual Observation of Deep-sky Objects with Small Telescopes.

-II. Reflectors.

6. A 100 mm Reflector in the Hands of a Young Astronomer.
7. Modifying the Orion ShortTube Reflector.
8. The Celestron Firstcope 114 Deluxe.

-III. Catadioptrics.

9. The Mighty ETX.
10. The "C5++".

-IV. Radio.

11. Meteor Observations with a Small Radio Telescope.

-The Contributors.