Astronomy with Your Personal Computer

By Peter Duffett-Smith and Peter J. Duffett-Smith

Book Overview

Revised

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052138995X
• ISBN13: 9780521389952
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Review of Astronomy With Your Personal Computer

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

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 .

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.