The Vixen Star Book User Guide How to Use the Star Book TEN and the
This book is for anyone who owns, or is thinking of owning, a Vixen Star Book Ten telescope mount or its predecessor. A revolution in amateur astronomy has occurred in the past decade with the wide availability of high tech, computer-driven, Go-To telesco
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The Vixen Star Book User Guide
How to Use the Star Book-TEN and the Original Star Book Graphics by Adam Chen The Patrick Moore
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
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The Vixen Star Book User Guide
How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book James L. Chen Adam Chen
James L. Chen Shenandoah Astronomical Society Gore, VA, USA
Adam Chen Baltimore, MD, USA
ISSN 1431-9756 ISSN 2197-6562 (electronic) The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series ISBN 978-3-319-21592-1 ISBN 978-3-319-21593-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21593-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015946604 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to my friends Gary and Sherry Hand, whose support for all of my books has been invaluable.
Introduction
One evening, around 8 o’clock on a cold, clear winter’s evening, I received a distressed phone call from a teenager who had received as an extraordinary Christmas gift a Vixen VC200L 8″ catadioptric telescope on a Vixen SXD equatorial mount with the Star Book GoTo computer system. She was having extreme difficulties getting the telescope to work. My contact information had been given to her by the local telescope shop that had sold the telescope and telescope mount to her mother. I was (and still am) the shop’s local expert on using the Star Book equipped mounts. The teenager on the phone lived in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., and I was over an hour-anda-half away by car. I tried to solve her telescope problems over the telephone, since instructing her in person was inconvenient and would be a last resort. The teenager’s problem was, using the Star Book to search for a planet or star, the
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