My Heavens! charts the progress of the authora (TM)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 a oewarts and alla story of small beginnings
in amateur astronomy, leading to the construction of a a oetop of
the rangea 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 a" 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 of the deep sky on those special
days of best seeing.
The story doesna (TM)t end with the construction of the
observatory, but goes on to describe the authora (TM)s choice of
equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining
superb astronomical images like the ones he shows in his book.
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