Pleasures of the telescope: An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers

· 1929

How to get a good telescope--Difference between reflectors and refractors--How a telescope is made achromatic--The way to test a telescope on stars. Orion and its wonders, Lepus, Canis Major, Argo, Monoceros, Canis Minor, and the Head of Hydra.…

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