Timeline for Is there a complete guide on how to use telescopes?
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| Jul 20, 2021 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1417499543038480388 | ||
| Jul 14, 2021 at 11:42 | history | edited | WantARevolution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 14, 2021 at 11:28 | comment | added | WantARevolution | @planetmaker The kind of guide I am searching for is something that that should consist of a systematic flow of structure beginning from scratch and proceeding to a highly advanced level of knowledge. I do want it to eventually reach about how VLTI and other advanced telescopes were devised, but it's clear by uhoh's words too that something like that is going to be very difficult to find. Although it's a long shot, I am hoping for something conclusive. That's also the reason I didn't specify it should be a book rather it can be some kind of website which has all of these details in such a way. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 10:28 | comment | added | planetmaker | so is it really amateur observing you aim at, or are you (also) interested in how the big professional telescopes like VLTI, Keck, Spitzer etc were devised? IMHO amateur-observing doesn't fit to how the body of the question reads at all. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 9:49 | comment | added | B--rian | @uhoh Thanks for the summary of the question, I changed my opinion and retracted my close-vote. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 9:17 | answer | added | Aaron F | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 18:11 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:04 | history | edited | WantARevolution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 15:00 | comment | added | WantARevolution | Well, I know it's a long shot. Although I do really hope I do find some. Anyways, Thank you! | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 14:54 | comment | added | uhoh | @Aadhavan sure sounds good, but I have a hunch that there will not be any single source for all of this, unless it's a very superficial treatment. I think the reason that you couldn't find any is simply that there aren't any, but that's just my view. I think you can find sources that specifically cover telescope optics, and other sources on telescope development history, and others on focal plane techniques (sensors etc.) etc. It seems almost asking too much to require it all to be in a single source. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 14:03 | comment | added | WantARevolution | @uhoh I suppose adding your edit would at least aid in getting an answer that would satisfy most of my specifications but I do want something that systematically covers everything till recent knowledge right from scratch including the UV/IR Telescopes. Maybe I could mention it as an optional point, would that be fine? | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 13:56 | comment | added | uhoh |
Your title asks about "guide on how to use telescopes" which sounds like amateur-observing but the last bit says "telescopes of all regions of the EM spectrum like Ultraviolet Telescopes, Infrared Telescopes, etc." which is generally quite from the amateur world. Would you like to narrow your question to amateur observing? If so, maybe remove the UV/IR bit. If not, then go ahead and remove the tag I've added.
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 13:54 | history | edited | uhoh |
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 13:54 | comment | added | uhoh | @Aadhavan Your question is not really broad, you've simply asked "Is there a Big Book of Telescopes?" which is either going to turn up a few, or none. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 13:45 | comment | added | WantARevolution | @planetmaker I suppose I could try to alternatively correlate the historical treatises and the operating manuals myself as a beginner, but I worry if that will be more of a setback. Thus, I wished to know if there is such a guide as that exists as the one I have requested in my question which would help fellow beginning enthusiasts like myself. What do you suppose I should do? Should I just combine them myself? Thank You! | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 13:42 | comment | added | WantARevolution | Thanks for responding! Actually, I did find a lot of resources, but none whatsoever had it in a viable structure which encompassed all of the specifications. Like as you say I did find independent historical treatises, engineering documentation, but none of them followed a systematic order with sufficient rigor. None of them also clearly showed correlations between historical treatises and the engineering documentation that would be really helpful to self-studying students like me. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 12:55 | comment | added | planetmaker | While I believe that such question is perfectly on-topic, I think your question is quite broad to the extend of being too broad as you basically ask about a complete operations manual, a complete engineering documentation and a historical treatise for all telescopes there are. Given this breadth of the query, I find it hard to believe that you did not find any ressources yourself so far or in how far the ones you found (which) are insufficient to answer your question at least partially. I'd appreciate if you'd amend your question by this. | |
| Jul 13, 2021 at 12:01 | history | edited | WantARevolution |
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| Jul 13, 2021 at 11:34 | history | asked | WantARevolution | CC BY-SA 4.0 |