Make Time for the Stars: Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy by Antony Cooke

By Antony Cooke

Many beginner astronomers are wanting time. A full-time occupation frequently takes up so much waking hours, and sometimes there easily isn’t time for leisurely staring at. thankfully, glossy applied sciences akin to computer-controlled telescopes, GPS, north-seeking and point detection, have made telescope set-up a lot speedier. Today’s imaging structures allow astronomers to take first-class astrophotographs with no the hours-long exposures. Make Time for the celebrities explains what to aim on a decent agenda, and the way to take advantage of today’s gear to get the main astronomy out of the least time.


This publication showcases a wide range of quick played astronomical initiatives, together with a variety of novel or new techniques to watching. There also are functional suggestions for maximizing time on the telescope, extracting optimum functionality, fast and effective set-up, and simply performed optical upkeep. considerably, the publication gains precise details on substitute imaging techniques with easy and no more time-consuming efforts.

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