Telescope Making No. 30 (Summer 1987)

The Summer 1987 issue of Telescope Making — “the magazine for, by, and about telescope makers” — features the following articles:


-“A New Wide-Field All-Spherical Telescope,” by Robert Sigler


-“A Equatorial Plate Fork Mounting,” by A. L. Woods


-“A Simple Practical Light Source for the Foucault Test,” by Gil Stacy


-“The Hose-Clamp Drive,” by Jeff Inman


-“Watchcroft Observatory: The Most Westerly Dome in England,” by Terrence Tempest


-“RTMC 1987,” by Richard Berry


-“A Foucault Jest,” by Brian Slade


Telescope Making debuted in 1978 in response to Astronomy magazine readers’ demand for more information about how to build telescopes. In the premiere issue, Editor Richard Berry explainewill help people share their ideas and learn from each other. ... You, and the telescopes you build, are its subject.” Telescope Making ran quarterly until 1992.


This Telescope Making PDF includes the complete Summer 1987 issue of Telescope Making.


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