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Article: Telescope design integrates computer control with new approach to old problems.(Company Business and Marketing)
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- EDN
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- October 12, 2000
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ADDING PRECISION CONTROL TO AN AMATEUR TELESCOPE SHOWS HOW SMART ELECTRONICS CAN ACCOMMODATE SYSTEM TRADE-OFFS AND CIRCUMVENT USER FRUSTRATION.
COMPUTERIZED CONTROLS for amateur telescopes have been available for about a decade and can greatly enhance your sky-viewing experience. If you have ever used even a high-quality telescope to look at objects in the sky, you probably have hunted for and looked at a few objects and then felt exhausted from the difficulties of finding and identifying celestial bodies. Any serious viewing involves carefully setting up the scope; aligning it with known coordinates; using setting circles; establishing the right ascension, ...