Hours With A Three-Inch Telescope
by William Noble
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co. 1887
Number of pages: 159
Description:
The following book is a primer of the Three-inch Telescope, and is designed to instruct the very beginner in the use of an instrument of that size, mounted on a common table stand and unprovided with any means of rinding objects in the sky by means of their coordinates.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(multiple formats)
Similar books
Astronomy for Amateursby Camille Flammarion - D. Appleton and Company
The Science of Astronomy is sublime and beautiful. It gives us wings, and bears us through Infinitude. In these ethereal regions all is pure, luminous, and splendid. Dreams of the Ideal, even of the Inaccessible, weave their subtle spells upon us.
(31648 views)
Star-Gazer's Hand-Bookby Henry William Elson - Sturgis & Walton
In the first part the author gives the main astronomical facts according to the latest discoveries [1910], but makes no pretense of entering into higher mathematical Astronomy. The second part of the book treats the Constellations.
(18229 views)
Curiosities of the Skyby Garrett Putman Serviss - Harper & Brothers
Some of the things described in this book are little known to the average reader, while others are well known; but all possess the fascination of whatever is strange, obscure, or mysterious magnified, by the portentous scale of the phenomena.
(16537 views)
Observing the Sky from 40Nby Roberto Mura - Wikibooks
This atlas contains a set of 24 maps regulated to the latitude of 40N, as well as information about some double and variable stars and almost 160 deep sky objects. 8 selected areas of the sky suitable for binoculars are displayed in separated maps.
(13114 views)