Astronomy with your Personal Computer (Volume 0)

Duffett-Smith, Peter

ISBN 10: 052138995X / ISBN 13: 9780521389952

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Astronomy with your Personal Computer (Volume 0)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052138995X
• ISBN 13: 9780521389952
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

The first edition of this very successful book was a winner of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's "Astronomy Book of the Year" award in 1986. The popularity of the book's programs is based on the ease with which the amateur astronomer can perform calculations on a personal computer. The routines are not specific to any make of computer and are user-oriented in that they utilize a simple version of the BASIC programming language and require only a broad understanding of any particular problem. Seven new subroutines in this new edition can be linked in any combination with the existing twenty-six. Since the programs themselves take care of details, they can be used, for example, to calculate the time of rising of any of the planets in any part of the world at any time in the future or past, or they may be used to find the circumference of the next solar eclipse visible from a particular place. In fact, almost every problem likely to be encountered by the amateur astronomer can be solved by a suitable combination of the routines given in this book. Peter Duffett-Smith is the author of another popular astronomy book: Astronomy with Your Calculator (3rd Edition), also published by Cambridge University Press.

Book Description

Written in a portable version of BASIC, these subroutines enable the amateur astronomer to make calculations using a personal computer. This edition adds seven subroutines to the original twenty-six, all of which are non-specific to any one machine.