Telrad Charts...

Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?

Thanks,
David

"After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done."

"David Showers" wrote in message
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Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?

Thanks,
David

"After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done."

Pick the charts you like the best and make your own telrad overlay from that
acetate for printing overhead slides. If you don't have a color printer or a
good graphics program a cheapie compass and a red sharpie will do the trick.
Can also make "halfs" and "quarters" to fit into folds. I print about 8-12
on a sheet and have them cut in various shapes.

Just an idea.

Steve

"David Showers" wrote in message
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Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?

You can get some free ones online to print from:
http://www.utahskies.org/deepsky/mes...sierTelrad.htm
http://www.utahskies.org/deepsky/cal...wellTelrad.htm

Also, Brent Watson's "official" telrad books from
http://www.sky-spot.com/skyspot.html are very nice, and rather field
friendly (laminated pages, black on white, etc), although the spiral binding
can start to come apart after a few years of abuse (something a quick trip
to Kinko's easily solved). I own the Messier set and the BTO book, and
while they are a bit pricy, they are worth it in my opinion.

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Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?

Thanks,
David

Hi:

Have you considered making your own? That's easy to do with the freeware
program Cartes du Ciel http://www.stargazing.net/astropc/

Peace,
Rod Mollise
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Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?


Download and print your own from here...

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http://www.astro-tom.com/messier/mes...ssier_maps.htm

-Florian

If I'm not mistaken the beautiful charts in Sky Atlas 2000.0 Deluxe Edition
have an acetate overlay with a Telrad bullseye on them. I love mine!

Scott

Yeh...print your own
Messier,Caldwell,
http://www.utahskies.org/deepsky/mes...dFrameSet.html

David Showers wrote:

Any recommendations for a good, field friendly book of Telrad Charts?

Thanks,
David

"After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done."

I also use the Sky Atlas 2000 and I have a plastic tiangular "puck" that
has a Telrad bullseye,manitude dots etc and it has felt feet so it does
not wear the charts....And yep I love mine too

RKroeppler wrote:
If I'm not mistaken the beautiful charts in Sky Atlas 2000.0 Deluxe Edition
have an acetate overlay with a Telrad bullseye on them. I love mine!

Scott