Re: [ATM] Looking for information on a telescope design

["Bob May" <rmay@nethere.com>]

Being an engineer, you really need to go Look up James Wyantt's
coursework on optics at the Univ. of Arizona.  He teaches there
and has chapter notes online for the courses that he is teaching
at the moment.  This is a  good starting point.  Then there are
the books by such as Warren Smith, Rudolf Kingslake, especially
Rutten and venRooij (available from Willliam Bell) Telescope
Design and Evaluation (they also have some rudimentary but
accurate software that goes with the book) and others on optical
theory.  Having at least one of these booooks on hand and
perusing them, you will usually find out all of the aberrations
that optical design are having to deal with.  You don't have to
be able to cite chapter and verse on this stuff, but generally
need ot understand the basics of it all.
So much for the reading material.  For software, Oslo LT is a
light version of a professional design program that will allow
youto exploree optical design.  Beware that it has a fairly steep
learning curvve as many of the oddities that the optical
engineers haveee been prone to in order to make thir profession
more esoteric than it needs to be.
Books can often be found at www.bookfinder.com at a much better
price than new, especially if you're more interested in the
content of the book rather than it's pri9stine condition.
Bob May
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