Choosing and Using a New CAT Getting the Most from Your Schmidt Cassegrain or Any Catadioptric Telescope /

• Main Author: Mollise, Rod. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09772-5

Catadioptric telescopes (CATs), such as the Schmidt Cassegrains, are increasingly popular with todays amateur astronomers and are capable of showing even the novice observer thousands of beautiful deep space wonders. Modern CATs, though, have become increasingly reliant on computers. This allows th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Whats a CAT?- Why a CAT [Catadioptric Telescope]?- Inside a CAT: the different designs
• Which CAT? The Buyers Guide
• The Out-of-Box Experience.-Accessories for Your CAT
• From That Very First Night: Setup and Checkout
• Computer-assistance: mastering go-to , GPS, and other complications
• The Care and Feeding of a CAT: Maintenance and set-up
• Observing with a CAT: from the Moon to the Quasars
• The Digital CAT: Deep Sky and Planetary Imaging
• Index
• Appendices.