From: "Matt Considine" 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "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).  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.)  There are other mirror sites,
accessible by clicking one of
the links on the "teleskop" root page in any of these.

Keep in mind that they are not translated into English, and it will amount
to about 500K of space.  But the drawings and photos are interesting. 
Perhaps there's a way of getting it translated into English, now that it's
in a computer-friendly form...

Anyway, FWIW ...

Matt

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