Telescope Control

By Trueblood and Genet Product Information: 6 by 9 inches, 562 pages, hardbound, 183 figures. Computer control has spread to so many industries that many system components, such as motor controller boards for the PC-clone, Macintosh, and UNIX workstation are now available commercially. In the previous edition of this book, the authors included several circuit schematic diagrams for custom electronics to perform functions that can now be performed by off-the-shelf circuitry. Many of these boards are affordable by amateurs and can save a great deal of time in developing a system. In this book, you will see fewer electronic schematics and more examples of how to use off-the-shelf boards and subsystems to configure your control system quickly. This book still fills a gap in the books that are available on using personal computers in astronomical applications. Most of the other books stress computing that can be done at the leisure of both the hobbyist and the computer, and computing that u