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From: tkrajci{at}san.osd.mil
Reply-To: tkrajci{at}san.osd.mil


> From: "Matt Considine" 
>
> As some may remember, I've been trying to track down old/obscure ATMing
literature.  I
> have come up with copies of a  couple of Russian ATMing books,
specifically,
those
> authored by
> Navashin and Sikoruk and mentioned at
>   http://www.telescopes.ru/articles/article2.phtml
>
> But I've just found some websites that seem to have scanned and OCR'd a
1982
version of
> Sikoruk's book (I have a 1990 edition)....

Funny you should mention this.

Dennis Nikitin has given me a copy of the 1982 Sikoruk book as a gift. Now
that I'm getting a bit more comfortable with Russian I will start reading
parts of it.

Dennis has also loaned me two other books:

1.  Astronomical Optics by Maksutov, 2nd publishing 1979 (based on the 1946
version if I read it correctly).

2.  Fabrication and Testing of Astronomical Optics by Maksutov, 2nd
publishing 1984 (based on the 1948 version).

>  A few of those sites, which include
>scans of all the
> diagrams and photos are
>
> http://www2.eunet.lv/library/lat/NTL/ASTRONOMY/teleskop/teleskop.txt
> http://lib.nordnet.ru/lat/NTL/ASTRONOMY/teleskop/teleskop.txt
> http://lib.sarbc.ru/lat/NTL/ASTRONOMY/teleskop/teleskop.txt
>
> (If you want to see the Cyrillic version change the "/lat/" to
> "/win/" in the addresses above.)

It's interesting to see how the different sites romanize the Cyrillic in
different ways.

>...Perhaps there's a way of getting it translated into
> English, now that it's in a computer-friendly form...

I make no promises, but I'll talk with Dennis and perhaps between the two
of us we can put a dent in parts of this.  I'm here for the next 16 months
or so.

I'm out of town soon, until mid-Feb, and Dennis soon leaves for training
seminars until mid March, but I will confer with him this weekend and see
what he wants to do.  We might be able to spend a couple hours a week on
this.

Tom Krajci
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

PS.  If it interests you, check out:
http://overton.tamu.edu/aset/krajci/pulkovo/pulkovo.htm (my 'photo essay'
and
http://overton.tamu.edu/aset/krajci/pulkovo/izvestiya.htm (a stab at
translating an article from Izvestiya)

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