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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.

Astronomy - General --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy --- Telescopes. --- Astronomical telescopes --- Optical telescopes --- Telescope --- Astronomical instruments --- Optical instruments --- Astronomy. --- Software engineering. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Observations.

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This book presents a systematic design methodology for decoding the interior structure of the Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical device from ancient Greece. The historical background, surviving evidence and reconstructions of the mechanism are introduced, and the historical development of astronomical achievements and various astronomical instruments are investigated. Pursuing an approach based on the conceptual design of modern mechanisms and bearing in mind the standards of science and technology at the time, all feasible designs of the six lost/incomplete/unclear subsystems are synthesized as illustrated examples, and 48 feasible designs of the complete interior structure are presented. This approach provides not only a logical tool for applying modern mechanical engineering knowledge to the reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, but also an innovative research direction for identifying the original structures of the mechanism in the future. In short, the book offers valuable new insights for all readers who are interested in the Antikythera mechanism.

Physics - General --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Antikythera mechanism (Ancient calculator) --- Astronomical clocks --- Calendar, Greek. --- History. --- Greek calendar --- Clocks, Astronomical --- Astronomical instruments --- Clocks and watches --- Mathematical instruments --- Engineering. --- Science --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Machinery and Machine Elements. --- Science Education. --- History of Science. --- Study and teaching. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Science education --- Scientific education --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Physics. --- Machinery. --- Science education. --- Machinery --- Machines --- Manufactures --- Power (Mechanics) --- Mechanical engineering --- Motors --- Power transmission --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Curious devices