Interferometry for Amateur Telescope Makers

Interferometry for Amateur Telescope Makers, A practical guide to building verifying and using an optical interferometer including powerful software to evalute interferograms By William Zmek. Product Information: 6 by 9 inches, hardbound, 500 pages, 38 photographs, 195 drawings. CD is included. This book has been written for the Amateur Telescope Maker (ATM) one who grinds, polishes, figures and tests optical surfaces with the objective of achieving near perfection and desires a practical guide to testing and interpreting full-aperture optical interferogram using a homebuilt interferometer. To that end, I start with a review of optical interference, after which I provide a systematic approach on how the ATM can build an optical interferometer without any input other than this book and homemade, surplus or common off-the-shelf components. For the Williams interferometer the experienced telescope maker is likely to have accumulated a well-stocked ???Junquebox??? that could be a significa