How to Use a Computerized Telescope: Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1 (Paperback)

Michael A. Covington

ISBN 10: 0521007909 / ISBN 13: 9780521007900

Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

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Paperback. How to Use a Computerized Telescope is the first handbook that describes how to get your computerized telescope up and running, and how to embark on a program of observation. It explains in detail how the sky moves, how your telescope tracks it, and how to get the most out of any computerized telescope. Packed full of practical advice and tips for troubleshooting, it translates the manufacturers' technical jargon into easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, and includes many of the author's tried and tested observing techniques. Early chapters explain how to test your telescope's optics, choose eyepieces and accessories, and diagnose operational problems. The second half of the book then gives detailed instructions for three classic telescopes: the Meade LX200, Celestron NexStar 5 and 8, and Meade Autostar (ETX and LX90). Concentrating mainly on telescope operation and troubleshooting, it is the ideal companion to Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes, also by Michael Covington. How to Use a Computerized Telescope describes how to get a computerized telescope up-and-running, and how to embark on a program of observation. Michael Covington explains in detail how the sky moves, how a telescope tracks it, and how to get the most out of any computerized telescope. Packed full of practical advice and tips for troubleshooting, his book gives detailed instructions for three popular telescopes: the Meade(R) LX200, CelestronDCC NexStar 5 and 8, and Meade(R) AutostarDTM (ETX and LX90). Michael A. Covington is an associate research scientist at the University of Georgia. He is a computational linguist trained in the computer processing of human language and the computer modeling of human logical reasoning, and a widely recognized expert on the Prolog programming language. He is the author of nine books including Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms, Seventh Edition (Barron's, 2000), Astrophotography for the Amateur (Cambridge, 1999), PROLOG Programming in Depth (Simon & Schuster, 1996), Cambridge Eclipse Photography Guide (1993), and Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1985). A senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Covington is a Contributing Editor to, and former "Q&A" columnist of, Poptronics magazine. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Codice articolo 9780521007900

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• Titolo: How to Use a Computerized Telescope: Practical Amateur Astronomy Volume 1 (Paperback)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521007909
• ISBN 13: 9780521007900
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

The first handbook that describes how to start observing the sky with a computerized telescope.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Covington is one of America's leading amateur astronomers and the author of Astrophotography for the Amateur (0521641330).