Go-To Telescopes Under Suburban Skies [Paperback]

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 telescopes 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.

This is the first book specifically written for amateur astronomers who own, or who are about to purchase, a computer-controlled go-to telescope. The go-to capability is huge, and this book offers fascinating deep-sky objects and detailed observing lists.

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. Computer control and automatic location of objects in the night sky is now a feature of even inexpensive astronomical telescopes (under $200), no longer just of the more expensive models. 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  and so is the popularity of these instruments.

GO-TO Telescopes Under Suburban Skies provides literally hundreds more targets beyond those offered by the built-in nightly tours that feature on the telescopes computer handset (a feature incorporated by most manufacturel“3