Overview
- Enables users to align and operate a Star Book mount to comfortably and confidently locate the planets and deep sky objects
- Offers the only written guide to the Vixen Star Book Go-To systems
- Provides historical information about the development of computer controlled Go-To telescopes for the amateur astronomer
- 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 (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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”.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vixen Star Book User Guide
Book Subtitle: How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book
Authors: James Chen, Adam Chen
Series Title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21593-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21592-1Published: 12 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21593-8Published: 01 October 2015
Series ISSN: 1431-9756
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6562
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 271 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems