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So You Want a Meade LX Telescope!: How to Select and Use the LX200 and Other High-End Models
Lawrence Harris
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Description for So You Want a Meade LX Telescope!: How to Select and Use the LX200 and Other High-End Models
Paperback. For anyone considering buying a high-end Meade telescope, this book offers an experienced user's guide to what can actually be achieved with it. It also offers a guide to the many software packages available to aid optimizing and actually using the scope. Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Num Pages: 236 pages, 85 black & white illustrations, 15 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGG; WNX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Computers and Astronomy Perhaps every generation of astronomers believes that their telescopes are the best that have ever been. They are surely all correct! The great leap of our time is that computer-designed and machined parts have led to more accurately made com- nents that give the astronomer ever better views. The manual skills of the craftsman mirror grinder have been transformed into the new-age skills of the programmer and the machine maker. (The new products did not end the work of craftsman te- scope makers, though. Many highly skilled amateur/professional opticians cont- ued to produce good-quality mirrors that are ... Read more
Computers and Astronomy Perhaps every generation of astronomers believes that their telescopes are the best that have ever been. They are surely all correct! The great leap of our time is that computer-designed and machined parts have led to more accurately made com- nents that give the astronomer ever better views. The manual skills of the craftsman mirror grinder have been transformed into the new-age skills of the programmer and the machine maker. (The new products did not end the work of craftsman te- scope makers, though. Many highly skilled amateur/professional opticians cont- ued to produce good-quality mirrors that are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
191
Condition
New
Series
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441917744
SKU
V9781441917744
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Lawrence Harris
Lawrence Harris retired from his job as a British government scientist where he had worked as a professional astronomer in solar studies and then astronomical satellite operations. For the last seventeen years he has been a columnist, specializing in writing about weather satellites, along with occasional articles on astronomy. He also contributes to astronomical society magazines.
Reviews for So You Want a Meade LX Telescope!: How to Select and Use the LX200 and Other High-End Models
From the reviews: “This book is a lot more than the main title suggests since it helps a prospective telescope purchaser select and use the LX200 and other Meade models. … This is an ideal book for those already owning a Meade telescope and especially as a stimulus to get existing telescopes out of mothballs and back into use. ... Read more