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- Covers telescope design in the entire EM spectrum, where most other titles focus on one or two wave bands only
- Widely circulated and highly regarded in the Chinese astronomical community, there has been demand for an English version of this book for many years
- The broad range of technologies presented have applications in fields as varied as telecommunications, aerospace industry, remote sensing and defense
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 360)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This 630-page book provides a very comprehensive engineering and science study of telescopes used for astronomy … . The technical level of the book is for graduate engineers and astronomers … . I reviewed some of the algebra in detail and found it to be complete and understandable. … I predict that the book will find broad use among the engineering and astronomical communities for years into the future, and I recommend this book to astronomers and engineers who build astronomical telescopes and instruments.” (James B. Breckinridge, The Observatory, Vol. 130, October, 2010)
“The book offers more of an encyclopedic review of a wide range of facets on the subjects of design, construction, calibration, and operation of telescopes used in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. … A short chapter with tables of all major telescopes in the world closes the book. … The book will be most useful to readers with an understanding of … telescope, who want to obtain a feeling for how problems in other wavelength regimes have been attacked.” (Jacob W. M. Baars, The Radio Science Bulletin, Issue 335, December, 2010)
Authors and Affiliations
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Tucson (NRAO), National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, U.S.A.
Jingquan Cheng
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design
Authors: Jingquan Cheng
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b105475
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-88790-6Published: 28 May 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2785-9Published: 06 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-88791-3Published: 14 March 2010
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 634
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Originally published in Chinese by Chinese Science and Technology Press, Beijing
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Measurement Science and Instrumentation