Amateur Telescope Maker's Index to Sky and Telescope (1941 - 1977)
While I was looking for ideas for my home-made telescope I compiled this index to help me find the information at a later time. Janik Zikovsky contributed the following: 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, Nov and Dec 1954, 1952, 1951, 1945, 1944, 1943, 1942, 1941. Thanks to him.
The format of the reference is year:month:page thus 1979:11:473 will mean page 473 of November 1979's Sky & Telescope[1]. I'm still working on it so it's not complete. It will eventually run from the first edition in 1941 up to the present.
See also Sky&Telescope's searchable index.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
aberrations, star images in presence of 1978:4:347
chromatic 1955:7:384, 1955:9:473 spherical 1955:11:35 theory of 1955:3:199
Achromatic lenses 1956:1:133
designing 1942:8:18, 1942:10:18, 1942:12:18, 1943:2:18, 1943:4:18, 1943:6:18, 1943:8:18, 1943:10:18
aluminum
anodizing 1962:4:229 casting 1960:1:185 furnace for melting 1959:6:465, 1959:7:526
aplanatic telescope, 4-inch 1979:11:473 astrophotography
portable instrument for 1957:6:390 simple mount 1956:10:563
atmospheric dispersion, neutralizing 1967:6:388 ATMers and WWII 1942:11:18 ATMers and the future 1943:1:17
B
Barlow lens, calibrating 1968:5:322
using 1961:12:362
binocular, stand 1982:7:89
binocular telescope
5-inch 1969:3:186, 1976:8:137 6-inch Cassegrain 1982:11:490 6-inch with tilted primary mirrors 1979:12:582 16-inch off-axis Gregorian 1966:2:106 17 1/2-inch 1984:11:460 light 1960:11:303 simple mirror system 1982:11:488
biscuit cutter, from steel water pipe 1982:1:89
blink comparator
binocular 1984:3:275 construction of 1973:10:254 projection type 1976:1:59
C
camera 1968:7:48, 1969:5:316
3-way for solar eclipse 1973:9:187 35 mm 1971:2:109 35 mm mount, 1964:2:117 cold camera that needs no vacuum 1975:8:122 cold-emulsion 1967:12:400 Cook triplet lens 1967:5:312 holder 1959:11:56 guided 1971:3:175 knife-edge focusing attachment 1971:10:235 lightweight 1985:12:612 microprocessing control of eclipse camera 1981:5:448 mount for projection photography 1965:12:378, 1977:7:63 Northwesterner and his equipment 1975:6:399 plastic 1980:12:530 planetary 1963:5:295 prime-focus 1958:1:148, 1958:2:20 self-operating meteor 1974:7:54 steel-ball drive 1982:2:198 support, simple aluminum 1961:9:166
Cassegrain
16-inch 1956:4:272 18.75-inch transportable 1963:3:172 20-inch portable 1952:11:19 collapsible lightweight 1971:6:382 compact 16-inch 1972:11:327 construction of 10-inch 1973:8:117 dual-power with relay lens 1973:2:116 eliminating stray light 1963:4:232, 1963:8:104 focusing 1976:10:299 modified 12-inch 1958:3:251 pocketable multipurpose 6-inch 1968:3:182 secondary, notes on 1965:12:375 secondary, "Norman" test 1957:11:38 secondary, working of 1965:11:308 secondary, testing a spherical 1959:4:348 telephoto 1972:9:192 testing and characteristics 1962:4:226, 1962:6:351
Cassegrain-Maksutov, 5 1/2-inch construction of 1966:7:40 casting metal parts (molding, pouring) 1952:7:228 catadioptric 1977:11:425, 1977:12:521
Buchroeder 1968:6:390 Buchroeder improved 1968:11:336 Buchroeder Schiefspiegler 1969:12:418 Herschelian 1971:1:46 new design 1968:4:249 theory 1956:8:460, 1956:9:511
caustic test 1942:1:22, 1942:2:22, 1942:3:20 caustic tester 1962:8:106, 1970:6:389, 1973:5:315, 1973:8:117 cemented (cellular) mirrors 1964:11:305, 1964:12:376 charge-coupled device (CCD) 1985:1:62 chronograph 1983:4:369
photo 1969:6:386, 1984:7:76
cleaning
lenses 1961:8:106 mirrors 1955:3:202
clock
calculator 1985:4:361 digital for sidereal time 1976:7:59 grinding of crystal 1978:5:436 inexpensive sidereal 1983:11:453 sidereal conversion of a Heathkit digital clock 1978:5:433 sidereal electric 1967:10:262
coatings, aluminium removing old 1969:4:253 collimation 1955:5:297, 1957:7:442, 1962:12:368 coronagraph 1985:12:607 corrector plate, vacuum method of making 1972:6:388 corrosion, electrolytic 1966:12:375 cross-hairs 1952:4:249,1955:4:249
D
Dall null test 1955:10:512 Dall-Kirkham 1955:11:38, 1962:1:48, 1962:2:109
8" Beavertail 1961:7:47 12" 1957:5:342
dew
preventive device 1972:7:52 reducing 1955:4:247
dewcap, automatic electronic 1978:8:161 diagonal
prism aberrations of 1969:10:261 location 1959:12:126 mounting with cement 1961:4:238 size of 1942:5:22, 1977:3:220 Twymann effect 1960:1:186
diffraction
anti-diffraction mask 1954:12:75, 1957:4:289 spider 1960:9:166, 1985:5:459 viewing patterns 1983:10:355
drive
advantages of a slow worm 1982:4:407 attaching large setting circle 1972:4:257 belt 1972:7:47 chain 1971:12:378 clock 1952:11:20 clock, on a pier 1961:4:237 control in ammo box 1978:12:566 corrector, simple 1967:2:116 correcting periodic error 1978:5:439 correcting with joystick 1984:5:463 crystal-controlled oscillator 1975:8:125 curved-bolt 1980:10:333 electric 1955:6:344, 1956:4:274 electronic controls 1976:3:199 electronic speed control 1975:1:50 for department-store telescopes 1974:10:253 frequency monitor 1983:9:257 from meccano parts 1973:9:184 gear combinations for, 1955:8:429 home-made toothed sector 1976:8:135 home-made worm gear 1974:6:411 hydraulic 1955:12:86, 1978:6:535 inexpensive 1966:4:236 indicator light 1962:3:172 oscillator-inverter clock 1968:8:115 pillow-block 1976:5:349 plastic threads 1976:8:140 reversing DC motors 1989:4:440 sidereal, inexpensive 1960:12:376 simple low cost 1944:6:18 slew-and-drive 1968:12:408 speed controls 1970:10:237 spring 1955:11:39 tangent arm with a specially cut cam 1978:6:530 tap for large sectors 1980:11:438 three-gears arrangements 1967:7:47 thumb-wheel controlled oscillator 1978:2:178 transistor oscillator 1965:10:243 variable-speed, mechanical 1965:7:43 wire cable 1982:2:199 6 wood-putty sector 1979:4:392
E
epoxy resin 1959:10:705 erecting system 1962:1:48, 1962:2:109 extrafocal images, multiple 1962:3:168, 1961:4:236 eye
correcting astigmatism 1976:11:376, 1983:5:465 effect on observing 1962:3:168, 1961:4:236
eyepiece
Barlow design 1966:8:103 info on 1961:11:295, 1944:2:18 measuring focal length 1944:10:16 nomogram that tells travel 1975:5:328 parfocal 1958:10:651 primer 1985:9:286 remarks on 1967:3:178 storing 1955:10:515, 1984:12:570 vinyl dust cap 1977:1:68 making low-power 1962:11:300
eyepiece projection
attachment 1961:2:118
F
figuring, a 24-inch 1974:12:405 film container, vacuum 1957:12:99 finder
crosshairs 1952:4:149 easy-viewing Newtonian 1983:10:353 design 1960:5:440 double-field and guide telescope 1971:7:42 illuminated 1975:3:183 M-17 as a, 1962:6:350 mounting 1978:7:66 novel arrangment 1961:5:297 penta-prism diagonal 1959:8:588
Fitz, Henry, early americam TM 1941:11:18 flat, Alvan Clark 48-inch 1982:1:85 focal reducer 1973:12:405 focuser
Crayford 1974:9:182 motor-driven 1973:2:120 screw 1955:1:115
focusing, problems in 1964:8:97 foucalt pendulum 1980:10:330 foucalt test
analyzing 1989:2:195 graphical approach 1976:2:127 surface profiles 1982:5:519
foucalt tester 1961:3:172
double-pass 1995:8:86 fiber optics 1971:5:314 for short-focus mirrors 1977:6:481 improved 1967:1:45 improved slitless 1967:4:248 light source 1961:9:170 making of pinhole light sources 1978:11:461 making precision pinholes 1981:5:453 pinhole and knife-edge - how far apart 1974:9:184 pinhole light sources 1982:1:89 quickly aligned 1972:3:183 recording 1969:7:51 scale for 1956:1:156 simple 1964:5:308 for Schwarzschild telescopes 1944:3:18 slit, adjustable 1958:3:256 with digital readout 1977:8:140
furnace, low-cost for melting 1959:6:465, 1959:7:526
G
gear trains 1957:8:494 glass
fused silica 1976:3:199 homemade 1995:10:82 removal in parabolization 1960:6:504 selecting 1973:3:186
gratings 1942:6:22 Gregory-Maksutov
4" 1959:3:282 6" 1959:12:123 6" portable 1960:6:502 8" 1961:2:116 design 1957:3:236 prize-winning 1961:12:359
grinding machine 1952:11:21, 1956:2:181, 1960:10:235
compact 1975:12:413 from a clothes drier 1981:3:260 Hindle-type 1967:2:115 Hindle-type for up to 16" 1964:5:310 Hindle-type for large mirrors 1979:10:367 Hindle-type modifications 1985:3:267 Porter-type 1957:8:492 straight-stroke 1965:3:176 overarm 1970:12:382
grinding tool 1963:7:49 guider
automatic 1974:3:191, 1974:4:259 combination with photometer 1979:7:83 recticle illuminated by starlight 1982:2:200 illumination, light-emitting diode 1973:5:319 image processing 1984:2:177
H
Herschel telescope 1958:9:589, 1959:8:582
L
lens
Christen 1982:2:201 contact 1978:11:461, 1982:1:88 elementary aberrations 1968:2:116 Fabry 1977:7:60
M
magnification
increasing 1959:11:51 measuring 1960:7:47
Maksutov
10.8-inch with Newtonian and Cassegrain foci 1977:2:139 11-inch 1957:12:96 aspherizing and more 1963:2:110 camera 1964:9:168 correcting lens, checking 1961:7:52 dual eyepiece positions 1970:11:313 high-performance 1975:9:190 lens thickness 1968:5:321 lens, grinding 1959:4:350 Maksutov-Newtonian 1964:3:180 notes 1958:4:309, 1958:6:423, 1957::7:440 Sigler Maksutov 1976:3:199 spherometer in construction 1958:7:473 convertible to Schmidt camera 1961:5:298 unobstructed, 4 1/2-inch 1972:1:47 with subaperture correctors 1981:8:166
micrometer
filar 1942:11:18 filar, homemade 1977:5:391 filar, for comets and double stars 1985:4:359 grating for double stars 1980:6:519
mirror
cemented (cellular) 1964:11:305, 1964:12:376 changing figure 1974:10:256 fired-clay 1976:3:199 "hairbrush" 1978:12:569 liquid 1984:9:266 making at Macalester College 1978:9:249 making long focus 1959:8:583 metal 1943:11:18 measuring radius of curvature with volume method 1980:1:71 perforating a 22-inch 1980:5:427 perforated, figuring 1961:4:239 performance 1956:3:231 sandblasting 1952:3:123 spherical 1960:4:376 stock removal 1971:9:174 suggestions 1958:12:110 uncoated, using on double stars 1957:6:392 vacuum-formed 1979:5:491 when is a spherical mirror good enough 1983:10:356 zero expansion, working of 1966:9:159
mirror cells, temperature effects 1973:10:256 monochromator, quartz 1951:4:148, 1951:5:175, 1951:6:200, 1951:7:225, 1951:8:250, 1951:9:275 mount 1966:10:228
adjustment of equatorial 1965:3:180, 1978:1:78, 1978:2:173 alt-az with slow motion controls 1963:8:103 alt-az with drive 1960:11:305 alignment 1968:5:319 bowling-ball 1957:4:292 car 1960:10:232 collapsible of plywood 1980:5:425 cream-separator 1963:7:51 cross-axis 1962:7:48 cross-axis in a box 1983:10:351 Dobsonian, equatorial tracking 1981:1:85 economical homemade 1985:1:74 equatorial, german, plywood 1967:9:176 equatorial, inexpensive wooden 1984:2:175 equatorial table 1977:1:64 fixed eyepiece 1972:10:262 forerunners of Sellers mount 1978:8:157 fork 1976:1:56, 1980:1:74 fork from airplane's nose gear 1989:4:440 fork, portable 1961:1:52 fork, semi-portable 1964:8:100 fork, wooden 1972:12:404 german equatorial 1955:4:246, 1958:12:107 german simple 1955:8:427 heavy-duty 1959:9:643 inexpensive 1962:8:109, 1965:2:117 lathe head 1968:9:187 little machining 1966:11:303 notes on modern 1968:5:290 notes 1943:12:16 Pasadena 1958:6:427 pier 1958:10:653 pier, flexure 1985:11:491 pier, flexure of concrete 1970:10:235 pier, very rigid 1965:10:246 pipe 1962:6:347, 1970:3:193, 1974:7:49 pipe for comet seeking 1978:7:73 plywood 1967:9:180 Poncet 1978:11:462, 1980:3:251 Poncet spin-offs 1980:2:163 portable 1968:12:406 "Porter's Folly" 1977:6:475 Rotating 1943:11:18 Sellers 1976:8:138 slow-motion declination control (inexpensive) 1968:7:46 split-ring 1969:2:116 split-ring for 12-inch 1957:5:341 split-ring from aluminium extrusions 1976:10:293 Spokane 1982:12:601 steam-pipe pier 1974:10:251 sturdy 1952:3:122 tightening 1982:2:201 torque-tube 1969:10:258 tube, simple 1960:1:188 two-pier equatorial 1962:2:112 various 1957:10:600 vibration-proof 1957:4:292 wye 1963:11:295 yoke 1971:2:114
mylar
aluminized as flux collector 1979:5:489 stargazing through 1979:9:274 winter observing from a heated dome 1978:7:65
N
Newtonian
6-inch with hydraulic drive 1955:12:86 8-inch's evolution 1982:5:523 8-inch f/5 1972:9:189 8-inch lightweight 1983:11:456 10-inch 1969:9:189, 1970:9:169, 1974:10:251 12-inch 1971:6:379 12-inch portable 1956:2:181 12 1/2-inch folded 1976:4:278 12 1/2-inch short-focus 1956:3:228 1970:11:318 20-inch 1972:10:258 alignment 1966:3:170 coma corrector 1983:7:67 folded with dual focal lengths 1981:6:545 focus 1958:10:651 well-equiped 8-inch 1976:12:471 planetary 12.5" 1963:11:293 portable with temporary mounting 6-inch 1967:1:49 portable for astrophotography 1962:9:170
Newtonian-Cassegrain
8-inch 1964:7:41 10-inch deluxe 1984:6:567 12 1/2-inch 1973:6:389, 1974:8:114, 1985:3:264 12 1/2-inch fork mounted 1959:1:169
Null test
by immersion 1964:4:242 Dall 1959:2:222
O
observatory 1966:1:44, 1966:8:100, 1967:6:382
Alberta 1961:3:177 amateur's in central Arizona 1968:9:183 Cassegrain (12.5-inch) 1955:2:158 cooperative 1971:12:374 dome 1960:5:438, 1961:8:109, 1981:9:272 dome, fiber-glass 1985:6:558 dome substitute 1975:3:188 elevated dome 1959:5:406, 1952:9:282 examples of 1977:5:332 field use 1972:9:193 fires 1985:3:268 flat-roof 1959:12:124 garage-top 1961:8:110 heated 1962:12:370, 1971:5:310 heated for 24" 1964:1:49 inexpensive 1958:3:255 in Fieldstone school 1959:1:166 Italian amateur's 1967:12:404 King College, Tennesee 1965:9:172 little for big scope 1989:3:328 made from prefabricated toolhouse 1974:5:338 Michigan amateur's 1965:7:44 Newton in Manitoba 1972:8:120 portable for small scopes 1960:7:56 on wheels 1967:8:108 over peaked roof 1966:3:176 remotely controlled backyard solar 1967:11:329 retirement project 1973:1:51 roll-off roof 1959:4:352, 1966:11:300, 1967:4:244, 1969:9:192 roll-off roof, low cost 1961:6:362 silo-dome 1960:4:374 slide-off roof 1969:7:49, 1951:11:17 sliding-roof 1974:2:122 small domed 1969:8:119 solar 1958:9:593 two-way roof 1964:12:382 well-equiped in Australia 1968:1:48 winter observing from a heated dome (Mylar) 1978:7:67 with a voice 1983:6:548
observing chair 1981:2:162
for binoculars 1974:1:51, 1979:5:487, 1985:2:171 handcrafted 1989:3:328
observing platform 1964:2:118 observing setup 1957:11:43 observing stations 1960:10:238 occultations, photoelectric observing 1977:9:164, 1977:9:289 optical design 1956:3:222
P
paper polishing 1954:12:72 parabolas 1941:12:22 photographic plates, scanning of 1969:9:186 photography
all-sky 1982:6:621, 1983:7:70 camera for solar elipse 1973:9:187 comparator 1966:12:373 decentering a lens for comet photography 1981:7:70 eclipse instrumentation hints 1970:2:124 equipment 1966:6:366, 1966:8:104 measuring engine, construction of 1982:9:279 mount for star-field 1984:3:271 nomogram 1976:5:353 polar-disk mounting 1983:9:255 portable platform 1983:4:366 recording time 1979:2:192 reducing of plate measurements 1982:9:284 tangent arm for wide-angle 1984:10:357 telephotography 1952:2:95 Toledo amateur's methods in astrophotography 1968:10:256 with Poncet mounting 1978:11:462
photometer
combination with guider 1979:7:83 for faint phenomena 1962:5:288 photoelectric 1981:11:496 problems with a, 1951:12:43 visual 1976:7:65
pitch lap
casting in a mold 1973:7:46 channeling 1970:3:186, 1978:8:155 grooving 1955:10:516 improved 1944:7:18 making 1976:3:199, 1984:9:264 making with mirror underneath 1975:7:50 paper laps instead 1954:12:72 reusable mold 1978:6:533 silicone-rubber mold 1983:11:453 submerged cold-pressing 1968:5:321 techniques at Macalester College 1975:7:53 waffle-iron 1980:11:437
polar alignment
device for portable mounts 1963:7:48 leveling device 1973:8:122 photographic 1973:11:329 polar axis aligner 1961:9:168
polishing
paper 1954:12:72 temperature increase during 1955:6:345
prisms 1954:11:29
objective 1955:12:90 roof 1943:6:16
R
radius testing 1958:4:309, 1959:10:706 radio telescope 1978:5:385, 1978:6:475, 1973:6:363, 1977:5:385, 1977:6:475, 1980:9:248 ray tracing 1955:1:112, 1955:5:295, 1981:4:356 reflector
3 1/2-inch terrestial 1967:6:387 4 1/4-inch terrestial 1968:3:185 4 1/4-inch oblique 1961:10:232 6-inch 1955:5:299, 1955:7:387 6-inch pipe-mounted 1966:5:304 6-inch light weight 1952:5:175 6-inch Springfield 1954:12:71 6-inch yoke portable 1955:9:475 8-inch dual-field 1965:2:112 8-inch oblique 1967:6:382 8-inch prize winning 1964:10:235 8-inch with drive 1961:6:358 8-inch with remote-reading circles 1965:1:44 9-inch semiportable 1970:8:110 10-inch 1967:10:258 10-inch springfield 1963:1:53 10-inch with unusual dome 1981:9:272 10-inch wood 1969:2:112 12-inch 1955:5:300, 1974:7:49 12 1/2-inch 1969:6:389, 1971:7:45 12 1/2-inch long-focus 1966:5:300 12 1/2-inch rich-field 1967:2:112 12 1/2-inch springfield 1956:11:33, 1956:12:85, 1957:1:135 14 1/2-inch 1975:4:255, 1951:3:126 15-inch portable 1979:6:584 16-inch 1965:4:242, 1979:2:185 16-inch astrometric 1978:11:455 16-inch portable 1967:2:115, 1979:1:87 16-inch 1973:4:250 16 1/2-inch porthole 1979:8:175 18 1/2-inch 1972:2:114 20-inch notes 1984:10:356 20-inch in Brazil 1960:2:246, 1960:3:310 22-inch equatorial Dobsonian 1984:8:167 24-inch at Crayford 1977:9:233 24-inch featherweight equatorial 1983:12:557, 1984:1:79 24-inch portable (porthole)1980:4:338 24-inch Peoria's 1982:10:375 24-inch saga of 1981:7:74 design of 1966:2:110 closed-tube 1956:6:368, 1956:7:414 design of small 1966:2:110 easily transported 20-inch 1977:3:225 figuring a 24-inch 1974:12:405 folded Herschelian off-axis 1970:3:191 fork-mounted 10 1/4-inch modifying for planetary observations moving a improving the 1944:4:18, 1944:5:16 inexpensive 1957:5:344 large 1962:7:48 off-axis neo-Brachyt 1958:8:529, correction 1958:10:654 oblique 1961:5:293 oblique 1965:4:248, 1967:6:382 off-axis 1966:10:231 portable 1952:6:201 spherical with correcting lens 1962:10:231 theory of 1956:5:322 terrestial 1967:6:387 unobstructed 1972:9:190 unusual portable 1952:1:66 very large amateur 1977:9:240
refractor vs reflector 1942:7:16 refractor
5-inch rich-field 1966:8:102, 1969:4:252 5-1/4-inch 1955:8:428 6-inch air-spaced 1970:7:46 6-inch Coud� mounted 1984:12:566 6 1/4-inch Hastings-Byrne 1979:3:294 8-inch making of 1971:4:243 11-inch 1978:3:257 12-inch long-focus 1969:3:182 apochromatic triplet 1981:10:376 clock-driven portable 1955:2:160 color correction 1985:10:375 design, Clairaut's forgotten legacy 1983:9:259 fixed eyepiece 1971:5:310 folded 1964:1:50, 1969:5:319, 1974:6:408 folded with fixed eyepiece 1963:12:355 inexpensive alt-az 1952:4:148 long 1976:2:130 optical designs of some famous 1982:3:302 portable for women 1967:7:44 resolution of Craig 24-inch 1983:7:72 Schupmann 1983:3:273 small precision mounted 1960:11:302 solar, folded 1975:5:323 triplet design 1982:4:411
Rich field scope 1967:3:181, 1967:8:113, 1976:10:297
with spherical surfaces 1957:9:458 with transfer lens 1962:9:168
Riverside 1980:8:158, 1981:8:169, 1982:8:183, 1983:8:159, 1985:9:271 Ronchi test 1961:11:298
null test for paraboloids 1974:11:325 standardizing 1984:3:272
rouge, making of 1989:1:98
S
sagitta 1957:2:187 Schiefspiegler
wall-mounted 1963:5:292
Schmidt camera
8-inch f1.5 1943:3:18 lensless 1974:5:333 convertible to Maksutov 1961:5:298 simplified 1959:10:703
Schmidt-Cassegrain 12 1/2-inch 1970:4:254
constructing a 12-inch 1976:11:382 diffraction-limited 3-inch 1966:4:231 equal-radius 1982:1:88 flat-field 1965:5:318, 1965:6:380
Schmidt corrector 1943:4:18
making 1956:10:560 testing at finite distance 1969:4:250
Schwarzschild telescope 1944:1:18
Foucault test for a, 1944:3:18
setting circles 1943:8:18, 1944:8:16, 1956:5:325, 1951:3:125
drawing by computer 1982:4:411 driven pointer 1973:8:120 lighted 1984:11:459 making of 1974:8:114 remote-reading 1965:1:44 vernier 1965:8:104
sidereal drives, oscillator amplifier for, 1964:6:369 slow-motion controls 1956:5:325 solar observation, with filter 1960:8:107 solar observatory 1958:9:593, 1952:5:176 solar projection, image screen 1970:8:114 solar spectrum, simple technique for recording 1979:4:395 solar telescope 1958:5:369 1979:7:78, 1983:1:81, 1985:7:71
interference filters for 1962:7:51 polar 1963:9:167 portable 1984:7:74 simple 1963:9:167 white-light 1980:9:245 with spectroscope 1963:8:106
spectrograph
holographic grating 1977:7:65 objective-prism 1983:5:460 slitless 1970:5:318
spectroscope 1942:9:18
solar 1963:8:106, 1968:2:121 solar prominences 1970:2:120
spectrohelioscope 1969:1:45, 1971:10:238 spherometer 1972:3:189
checking focal length while grinding 1963:12:358
spider
8 legged 1974:10:255 curved 1969:10:263 diffraction, see diffraction, spider star chart illuminated box 1984:9:265
night viewer 1982:6:627 star dial, circumpolar 1984:11:464 star, variable observing 1980:10:285 Stellafane 1969:11:342, 1975:10:255, 1977:10:328, 1980:11:432 sundial
analemnatic 1982:11:486 that tells standard time 1982:7:86 telecompressor, design 1984:4:367
surveyor's transit 1955:9:476
T
teflon, substitute 1989:4:440 telescope
all-weather 1957:4:290 aplanatic, see aplanatic telescope at Hartness House 1975:11:332 balancing with spring 1981:6:549 beautifying 1975:11:338 binocular, see binocular telescope bowling ball 1967:3:175 Buchroeder relay, 12 1/2-inch 1971:11:302 Cassegrain, see Cassegrain catadioptric, see catadioptric charting attributes 1983:11:458 college student's 1968:2:121 comet seeker 1977:4:306, 1978:7:73 Dall-Kirkham, 6-inch 1970:6:394 Dall-Kirkham, 8-inch 1974:12:401 finding magnitude limit 1984:1:28 fixed-eyepiece with clock driven mirrors 1964:1:46 gatherings 1971:8:107, see Stellafane, also Riverside image orientation at a Coud� or Springfield focus improving performance
of large instrument 1970:8:113
large portable knockdown 1973:7:49 light-gathering efficiency 1976:4:283 liquid-mirror, see mirror, liquid low-power 1969:3:189 M-17 elbow 1965:3:178 Maksutov, see Maksutov measuring continental drift 1981:5:405 Meccano 1971:6:384 miniature 1978:11:457 model of 70-inch 1971:9:170 Nassau memorial 1981:2:165 Newtonian, see Newtonian Newtonian-Cassegrain, see Newtonian-Cassegrain old-fashioned 6-inch 1972:12:400 parameters from graph 24 portable 1980:12:534 portable 1968:7:48 protecting 1975:11:338 protecting aluminium parts 1976:3:199 radio, see radio telescope reflector, see reflector refractor, see refractor resolution criteria for diffraction-limited 1983:2:176 rich field 1967:3:181, 1967:8:113, 1976:10:297 Schupman - report 1942:4:20 Schwarzschild 1944:1:18 semi-permanent pedestal 1969:7:46 small 1972:4:252 solar, see solar telescope structural considerations 1976:6:423 Springfield 6-inch with remote reading dials 1969:4:247 temporary 1976:8:135 Tri-Schiefspiegler, see Tri-Schiefspiegler unobstructed types 1972:2:117 variable eyepiece height 1978:7:65 wide-field 1969:5:316 Wright 11 1/2-inch 1972:5:320 fabrication of 1969:8:112
Telescope Making, complete series of articles :
Design 1944:11:19 Grinding 1944:12:16 Pitch lap 1945:1:18 Polishing 1945:2:20 Testing 1945:3:20 Diagonal 1945:4:20 Tube, Finder 1945:5:18 Spider 1945:6:20 Mounting 1945:7:18 Setting circles 1945:8:18 Equatorial adjustment 1945:9:16, 1945:10:18
telescope shelter, roll-off 1974:6:385 testing
almost null test for paraboloids 1979:1:92 calculating a mirror's surface accuracy 1977:8:144 Cassegrain secondary mirrors 1970:1:49 Dall null test 1976:9:210 light source 1973:3:183 null test for Cassegrain secondaries 1982:8:188 polishing 1979:8:180 Rayleight water test for flats 1990:7:89 star 1973:3:187
timing, precise 1963:6:355 tool
laminated glass 1984:11:359 thin glass, thick plaster 1985:1:75 training, optical technicians 1965:7:41
tube
balancing 1952:12:48, 1958:11:47 closed 1956:6:368, 1956:7:414 restoring 1982:6:625 ventilation by suction 1956:2:183 wooden 1981:4:360 wooden, turning a, 1952:10:308
Transfer lens 1959:11:53, 1962:9:168 Tri-Schiefspiegler 1975:1:46, 1975:2:115
mounting a 6-inch 1979:9:270
W
wedge tester 1972:3:189 windows for reflectors 1962:3:171