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Recent years have seen a continuous increase in the power of small computers and a simultaneous decrease in their price. As a result many people interested in astronomy have such equipment at their disposal. This prompts the idea of using these computers for astronomical computation. What positive advantages are there in using one’s own computer, when one can obtain all the most important data required for observing, fully as accurately, in one of the many yearly handbooks?
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Montenbruck, O., Pfleger, T. (2000). Introduction. In: Astronomy on the Personal Computer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03436-7_1
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