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- Reviews of software and hardware suitable for digital drawing at the telescope eyepiece
- Introduces a complete suite of fresh, modern techniques involved in making digital astronomical drawings
- Simply, clearly explained and illustrated by a practitioner
- Encourages new observers as well as providing established observers with new techniques
- Unlike ‘pencil’ drawings, enhancement techniques can easily be used for digital sketches: this book explains how this is done using a desk-top PC
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series (PATRICKMOORE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I Hardware Past Present, and Future
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Front Matter
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Part II Software and How to Use It
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Peter Grego … introducing observers to this fertile territory in his richly illustrated book. … The topic is covered in great detail, from a historic overview of computing itself, to the inner-workings of all the key components of desktop and portable computers. The author makes a well-documented case for computers being used to generate, assist, and enhance the sketching process." (Jeremy Perez, Astronomy Now, December, 2009)
About the author
Peter Grego has recently written The Moon and How to Observe it for Springer. He has eight other published astronomy books to his credit. And is working on Mercury and Venus and How to Observe Them for Springer. Living in the UK, he is a well-known writer and practical amateur astronomer. He has contributed to many other books, and has more than 100 published articles to his credit. He is the Lunar Topographic Co-ordinator and Editor of the BAA Lunar Section journal, The New Moon.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Astronomical Cybersketching
Book Subtitle: Observational Drawing with PDAs and Tablet PCs
Authors: Peter Grego
Series Title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85351-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-85350-5Published: 30 April 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-85351-2Published: 21 April 2009
Series ISSN: 1431-9756
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6562
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations, 116 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Popular Science in Astronomy