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Computing in Astronomy: Applications and Examples
Computer, 2014This article includes the following "mini-articles" about applications and examples of computing in astronomy: "Visualizing the Universe: Using Modern Graphics Cards to Understand the Physical World," by F. Alexander Bogert, Nicholas Smith, and John Holdener; "Visualizing Big Data in Astronomy: The Automated Movie Production Environment Distribution ...
F. Alexander Bogert +14 more
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Computing in Astronomy: To See the Unseen
Computer, 2014Advances in computing have empowered astronomers to explore the universe in greater detail. Software-defined instruments relying on digital data capture and processing are more powerful than ever and continue to bring us new knowledge about the universe and our place in it.
Victor Pankratius, Chris Mattmann
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The Personal Computer for Teaching Astronomy
International Astronomical Union Colloquium, 1990The two interactive software packages, which we called ASTRONOMIA 1 and ASTRONOMIA 2 (in the following Al and A2) and developed for a personal computer under MS-DOS, are primarily intended to be used in junior-high and high schools as tools for teaching astronomy.
R. Andreoni, G. Forti, P. Ranfagni
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The Computation of the Length of Daylight in Hindu Astronomy
Isis, 1944Note on the illustrations. The facsimiles of the titlepages to the two volumes of Mein Kampf and of the preface to vol. I have been taken, with kind permission, from copies of the first edition in the Houghton Library, Harvard University. The first owner of that vol. I was JoS. SINNER, stud. ing., on Sept.
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Volunteers' Engagement in Human Computation for Astronomy Projects
Computing in Science & Engineering, 2014Human computation is a computing approach that lets humans perform tasks for which there's still no satisfactory solution, even when today's most sophisticated computing infrastructures are used. One stream of human computation is âvolunteer thinking,â' systems that gather volunteers willing to contribute by executing human computation tasks in citizen-
Lesandro Ponciano +3 more
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Computer Networking in Astronomy
1995The academic and research community has long had a raw deal, in having to put up with a very unapproachable user interface. Other communities have demanded more. Even Unix software has been influenced, albeit with considerable delay, by the working environments of Windows and Macintosh machines.
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Do-it-yourself computational astronomy
Japanese Journal of Mathematics, 2008zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Early applications of computer technology to dynamical astronomy
Celestial Mechanics, 1988The review traces the progress from the early application of the Hollerith Tabulating Machine to the construction of astronomical tables by interpolation and to the evaluation of Brown’s Tables of the Moon by L. J. Comrie in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s to the introduction of large programmable electronic calculators in the post World War II era ...
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Astronomy with your Personal Computer
1990The first edition of this very successful book was one winner of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 'Astronomy Book of the Year' awards in 1986. There are a further seven subroutines in the new edition which can be linked in any combination with the existing twenty-six.
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