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"This book is truly a magnum opus, a labour of love, and a great work of scholarship. It is authoritative, detailed, thorough, superbly illustrated, well referenced, and all-encompassing. There is no nook or cranny of the history of astronomical photography or its proponents that has not been investigated, noted, and embellished with a relevant image. It is worth every single cent of its price. It is an essential addition to every astronomy library. Anyone with even a vague interest in the development of astrophysics will need to have this book to hand; it is a vital and reliable starting place for any historical research into the last two centuries of astronomical endeavour." Professor David W. Hughes, 'Observatory' magazine, February 2015. Read Full Review Here:

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Great pioneering telescope builders including William Parsons, Andrew Ainslie Common, Bernhard Schmidt, George Willis Ritchey and Henri Chretien; and the use of their telescopes in astronomical research and Astrophotography.
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Includes all five chapters on Astrographs:
  • VIII.1: William Parsons;
  • VIII.2: Andrew Ainslie Common;
  • VIII.3: George Willis Ritchey & Henri Chretien;
  • VIII.4: Bernhard Voldemar Schmidt;
  • VIII.5: Photographic Telescopes.
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Number of Pages: 204
Number of Snippet Panels: 174
Number of Photographs/Illustrations: 269
Number of Notes/References: 305
 
Buy Part VIII and make a considerable saving on the cost of the individual chapters.
 
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The author would like to thank: David Arditti, the Ambrosen family, Erik Schmidt, Jochen Schramm, William Clere Leonard Wilmer Brendan Parsons, 7th Earl of Rosse and the Parsons family of Birr Castle; Jean Jacques Meusy, Alan Williams, the Ritchey-Miller family, the Baldet family, the Lagarde family, the Meader Family Association; Ancestry.com, bmdregisters.co.uk; thePeerage.com, findmypast.co.uk, findmypast.ie; the American Philosophical Society; Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, the Henri Chretien Archives, Twentieth Century Fox Studios, the Irish Astronomical Journal, the University of Tartu; the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Greg Smye-Rumsby of the Craig Telescope Project, the Cambridge University Observatory, the Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University; the Royal Greenwich Observatory, the Harvard College Observatory, the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago, the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory, the Lick Observatory, the Mount Wilson Observatory, the Mount Palomar Observatory, the Hamburg Observatory and its Museum, the Sydney Observatory, the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, the United States Naval Observatory, the European Space Agency, Officina Stellare; NASA, the William Henry Fox Talbot Archives, De Montford University; the Ordnance Survey; Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales; SPIE Matthew Hall Engineering; NorfolkMills.co.uk; the US National Archives; the Superintendent of the United States Census for the use of the following items: text extracts from original sources, genealogical information, photographs, maps, drawings and illustrations included in this eBook.
 
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Includes all five chapters on 'Astrographs',i.e. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, Andrew Ainslie Common, George Willis Ritchey & Henri Chretien, Bernhard Schmidt and Photographic Telescopes. Buy at a discounted price.

Dr. Stefan Hughes began his career as a professional astronomer, gaining a 1st Class Honours degree in Astronomy from the University of Leicester in 1974 and his PhD four years later on the 'Resonance Orbits of Artificial Satellites due to Lunisolar Perturbations', which was published as a series of papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. After graduating he became a Research fellow in Astronomy, followed by a spell as a lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary College, London. Then came a ten year long career as an IT Consultant. In 'mid life' he spent several years retraining as a Genealogist, Record Agent and Architectural Historian, which he practiced for a number of years before moving to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where for the past ten years he has been imaging the heavens, as well as researching and writing the 'Catchers of the Light' - A History of Astrophotography.

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