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The Choice of Small Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

David L. Crawford
David L. Crawford*
Affiliation:
GNAT, Inc. Tucson, Arizona, 85716, U.S.A.www.gnat.org. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

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Small telescopes can be powerful tools for astronomical research. Many are being used by professional and amateur astronomers to do important, even frontier, research. They are also extremely valuable tools for education. This paper discusses the characteristics of such telescopes, and it makes recommendations about items such as field of view, focal length, and so on. It also discusses a few small telescopes representative of what is currently being done. Astronomy needs such facilities as much as it needs the giant telescopes. They complement each other very well.

Type
Section 5: Small Telescopes or Internet Access?
Information
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 24 , Issue 3: Special session: Astronomy for Developing Countries , 2001 , pp. 236 - 242
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Pacific 2001