Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies

Description

Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies is the first book specifically written for amateur astronomers who own, or who are about to purchase, a computer-controlled go-to  telescope. The advantage of the go-to  capability is enormous “ the telescope can be aimed at any object in the sky with great speed and accuracy “ which is why these instruments are so popular. Making the realistic assumption that the observer is using a relatively small telescope and is observing from a backyard in a suburban area, this book provides literally hundreds more targets beyond those offered by the built-in nightly tours  that feature on the telescope s computer tours. And instead of wasting many pages on maps and coordinates, it leads the computer to locate the targets, and so has room to suggest many more fascinating deep-sky objects and provide detailed observing lists and information about what's being viewed. (Source: Google Books API)