Choosing and Using a New CAT Getting the Most from Your Schmidt Cassegrain or Any Catadioptric Telescope /

• Main Author: Mollise, Rod (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Catadioptric telescopes (CATs), such as the Schmidt Cassegrains, are increasingly popular with today’s amateur astronomers and are capable of showing even the novice observer thousands of beautiful deep space wonders. Modern CATs, though, have become increasingly reliant on computers. This allows th...

Table of Contents:

• Why a CAT?
• What’s a CAT?
• Inside a CAT
• Which CAT?
• Making Friends with a CAT
• Accessorizing a CAT
• CAT
• Enjoying a CAT
• Care and Feeding of a CAT
• Computerizing a CAT
• Taking Pictures with a CAT
• Choosing and Using a New CAT
• Keeping the Passion Alive.