Astronomical Cybersketching Observational Drawing with PDAs and Tablet PCs /

• Main Author: Grego, Peter. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85351-2

You love sky watching and are excited by what you see through your telescope. You want to keep a record of what you see. You want others to see it. These are all good reasons to put down your pencil and pad and get started cybersketching! What is cybersketching? It is using a small computer, such as...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Sketching the Skies
• Why Draw?- Technological Aids
• Part I: Hardware: Past, Present, and Future
• From Carefully Tooled Gears to Totally Cool Gear
• Computers Get Personal
• The Power of the Portable
• Handheld Cyberware
• Part II: Software and How to Use It
• Electronic Skies
• In Graphic Realms
• Cybersketching Challenges
• Glossary
• Index.