My Heavens!: The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-The-Top Observatory

by Gordon Rogers

Book Overview

My Heavens describes how to set up a high class amateur observatory. Written by a qualified building surveyor, it looks at the planning, building and construction from a professional viewpoint. The book tells the "warts and all" story of small beginnings in amateur astronomy, leading to the construction of a "top of the range" observatory at a house on the edge of a country village between Oxford and London. Comparisons are made with similar large...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387737812
• ISBN13: 9780387737812
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"