fame

kewl, I'm now the darling of hollywood too, it seems, or at least Pyongyang. (Or maybe you just need to turn off tracking cookies.) ;)

Not that "drudge" doesn't have some relationship to my life at the moment.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Don't think that I haven't tried!

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I like that non-sequiter cover; a picture of outer space .. somehow that makes it more interesting and eye-catching (salable).

Unless you use ghostery or similar you haven't tried at all.

I liked the plain slate blue cloth of the first edition, but that space picture was the best compromise I could arrange. The first cover design they showed me had a nebula picture that looked exactly like spilled blackberry yogurt.

I remember when they sent me the first copy of the first edition--somehow with the hard covers and all, I was tempted to start believing my own stuff. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

So, why no chapter on telescopes?

Well, there are a couple of examples in Chapter 1 on telescopes, but (a) I'm not a lens designer, and (b) there are a million books on that sort of stuff, e.g. Kingslake's "Optical System Design" and "Lens Design Fundamentals" and Smith's "Modern optical engineering" and "Modern Lens Design" on the pro side, to Jean Texereau's "How to Make a Telescope".

Cheers

Phil Hobbs