The Vixen Star Book User Guide: How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book - Couverture souple

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Chen, James L.

 
9783319215921: The Vixen Star Book User Guide: How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book
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ISBN 10 : 3319215922 ISBN 13 : 9783319215921
Editeur : Springer, 2015

Synopsis

This book is for anyone who owns, or is thinking of owning, a Vixen Star Book Ten telescope mount or its predecessor. A revolution in amateur astronomy has occurred in the past decade with the wide availability of high tech, computer-driven, Go-To telescopes. Vixen Optics is leading the way by offering the Star Book Ten system, with its unique star map graphics software. The Star Book Ten is the latest version of computer telescope control using star map graphics as a user interface, first introduced in the original Star Book first offered in 2003.

The increasingly complicated nature of this software means that learning to optimize this program is not straightforward, and yet the resulting views when all features are correctly deployed can be phenomenal. After a short history of computerized Go-To telescopes for the consumer amateur astronomer market, Chen offers a treasury of technical information. His advice, tips, and solutions aid the user in getting the most out of the Star Book Ten system in observing sessions.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Chen is retired from the Department of the Navy and Federal Aviation Administration where he worked as a Radar and Surveillance Systems Engineer. A guest lecturer at local Washington DC/Northern Virginia/Maryland astronomy clubs on amateur astronomy topics of eyepiece design and optical filters, he wrote a short Astronomy Magazine article on Dobsonian telescope design November 1989 and served as a sales consultant to two Washington DC area telescope stores for over 30 years. He is the author of "How to Find the Apollo Landing Sites" and "A Guide to the Hubble Space Telescope Objects".

Adam Chen is Program Manager of media support for NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. He was creator and executive producer of major NASA publications including the book and web-book application documenting the history of the Space Shuttle Program "Celebrating 30 Years of the Space Shuttle Program".

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3319215922
ISBN 13 
9783319215921
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
304
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