Telescope Making No. 28 (Fall 1986)

The Fall 1986 issue of Telescope Making — “the magazine for, by, and about telescope makers” — features the following articles:


-“Interview with Horace Dall,” by Richard Buchroeder and Jim Houghton


-“On the Construction of Foamcore Telescope Parts,” by Rob Pike


-“Cementing Achromatic Lenses,” by Robert E. Cox


-“Design and Construction of a Super Planetary Telescope Objective,” by Roland Christen


-“Modifications to the Diffraction Image Caused by Surface
Roughness in Mirrors,” by Dick Suiter


-“Building a 12.5" Buchroeder Tri-Schiefspiegler,” by Richard J. Wessling


-“Construction of a Second 12.5" Tri-Schiefspiegler,” by Steven W. Johnston


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 explained the magazine’s mission: “We see TM as a magazine that will 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 Fall 1986 issue of Telescope Making.


(64 pages, 8.4 MB