Five Minute Lectures

Here are a few essays that might be useful to amateur astronomers.
Some are from lectures given at meetings, some were from other sources.

The Most Fabulously Useful Formula In Astronomy -- by Tom Lougheed
Daylight Collimation of an SCT or Maksutov -- by Robin Casady
Telescope Eyepieces: A Discussion For The Beginner -- by Jay Reynolds Freeman
How Coyote Made The Milky Way -- Native American Tradition
Introduction to CCD Imaging -- Arthur Babcock
& Robin Casady

 

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