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My Heavens!: The Adventures of a Lonely Stargazer Building an Over-the-top Observatory (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

by Gordon Rogers (Author)
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  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; illustrated edition edition (18 Dec 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0387737812
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387737812
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820,012 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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My Heavens! charts the progress of the author’s own substantial observatory (with additional material from amateur constructors of large observatories elsewhere) from conception, through design, planning and construction, to using an observatory of the kind that all amateur astronomers would aspire to own. This book tells the “warts and all” story of small beginnings in amateur astronomy, leading to the construction of a “top of the range” observatory at a house on the edge of a country village between Oxford and London. The author is a qualified building surveyor, and looks at building the observatory from his own professional perspective. There were of course many errors, problems, technical and organizational difficulties along the way, and the author never shies away from admitting his mistakes – and in doing so he reduces the chances of others falling into the same traps. Comparisons are made with similar large projects in the USA, taking a look at the differences and similarities in planning and building regulations, and in construction methods on both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually an observatory materialized, set up to facilitate the taking of very high quality images of the deep sky on those special days of best seeing. The story doesn’t end with the construction of the observatory, but goes on to describe the author’s choice of equipment, setting it up, and his own techniques for obtaining superb astronomical images like the ones he shows in his book.

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Gordon Rogers lives in England. He is a qualified building surveyor, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors as well as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. His beautiful deep-sky images regularly appear in the astronomical magazines. He contributed a chapter to More Small Observatories, by Sir Patrick Moore (Springer, 2002). He lives in what is probably the only traditional English part-thatched cottage to feature an observatory dome!
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Heavens! What a fun book!, 15 May 2008
By Mr. Stefan Zietara (Aylesbury, Bucks) - See all my reviews
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A look into the astronomical life and times of a great local astrophotographer, Gordon Rogers FRICS FRAS.

Gordon's book is a joy to read. I managed to finish it on a flight to Istanbul and left me wanting for more. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the style it's written in. I draw parallels with Sir Patrick Moores writing style. Lots of funny stories and events that shaped Gordon's interest and led to the building of his fabulous observatory in a quiet Buckinghamshire village.

I'm lucky enough to have seen the observatory for real. Amazing to see this high tech piece of kit sitting on the roof of a cottage. (As illustrated on the cover of the book) Gordon and his wife Margaret are charming folk and very hospitable.

The part of the book which I keep refering to is the section at the beginning where Gordon documents seeing something slam into the moon one evening when out with friends. Gordon's natural drive to find an explanation to what he saw led him to meet Sir Patrick Moore with whom he is now good friends.

Many of Gordon's images are shown in the book (black and white) and some of his imaging methods are outlined.

Gordon writes about his RCOS telescope and the Paramount ME mount and how he worked hard to get everthing work just right.

The book closes with contributions from two amateur astronomers who have also built home observatories. These two examples together with Gordon's set up represent the pinnacle of home observatory building. There simply isn't anything better.

I look forward to the sequal. ;-)

SJZ
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