Astronomy with Your Personal Computer
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Book Overview
This is a book for the amateur astronomer who wishes to carry out astronomical calculations using a personal computer with the minimum of fuss. It is not specific to any make of machine, neither are the programmes confined to specific calculations, Rather, it presents a collection of twenty-six subroutines, written in a portable version of BASIC, which can be mixed and matched according to personal requirements. Furthermore, the user need only have...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521319765
ISBN13:9780521319768
Release Date:December 1985
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Review of Astronomy With Your Personal Computer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Good set of astronomical algorithms and GWBASIC code for them + explanations. Code would need to be converted into a more modern language, but the algorithms are just as valid. Of course, more extensive and precise algorithms exist, but these are a good optimization of simplicity and accuracy.
Excelent book with clearly commented source
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I bought this book out of curiosity, and found the functions fun to play with. I ported some of them to 16bit assembly language and had to make a floating point adder as this book uses a lot of real type numbers. However, the code may not run in newer Basic compilers like Qbasic as the syntax is more for AppleIIe/Commodore 64 basics. So some porting will be necessary.
excelent but Sadly out of Time .
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Although the book covers a great range of astronomical programs, its psudo-code doesn't make for easy translation into other landuages like C++ or Pascal. He goes through the program one by one, but one can't help but feel it was ment to writen as one big program. Not for the novice astronomer or programmer.
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