Principles of Astronomical Telescope Design

• Fundamentals of Optical Telescopes.- Mirror Design For Optical Telescopes.- Telescope Structures and Control System.- Advanced Techniques for Optical Telescopes.- Space Telescope Projects and their Development.- Fundamentals of Radio Telescopes.- Radio Telescope Design.- Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelength Telescopes.- Infrared, Ultraviolet, X-Ray, and Gamma Ray Telescopes.- Gravitational Wave, Cosmic Ray and Dark Matter Telescopes.- Review of Astronomical Telescopes.

From the reviews:“This 630-page book provides a very comprehensive engineering and science study of telescopes used for astronomy … . The technical level of the book is for graduate engineers and astronomers … . I reviewed some of the algebra in detail and found it to be complete and understandable. … I predict that the book will find broad use among the engineering and astronomical communities for years into the future, and I recommend this book to astronomers and engineers who build astronomical telescopes and instruments.” (James B. Breckinridge, The Observatory, Vol. 130, October, 2010)“The book offers more of an encyclopedic review of a wide range of facets on the subjects of design, construction, calibration, and operation of telescopes used in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. … A short chapter with tables of all major telescopes in the world closes the book. … The book will be most useful to readers with an understanding of … telescope, who want to obtain a feeling for how problems in other wavelength regimes have been attacked.” (Jacob W. M. Baars, The Radio Science Bulletin, Issue 335, December, 2010)