Celestial Basic: Astronomy on Your Computer

About this book

Bring the planetarium into your home Explore the universe through your computerno more hunting for your almanac digging up that elusive astronomical magazine or sitting down for hours of laborious calculations on your pocket calculator. This book offers programs that are useful to the serious amateur astronomer as well as the occasional stargazer. The programs convert time from one system of measurement to another calculate and display the positions of the Sun Moon planets and stars for any date at any boation. teach you to recognize the constellations and more. Knowledge of the stars and solar system is at your fingertips in Celestial BASIC. "The beauty of author Eric Burgesss approach is that his programs dont just print the results of the calculationsthey display them graphically on the computers monitor... a fascinating and extremely useful book..." Mike Higgins Computer Graphics World