We’ve already taken a grand tour of computers of various sorts, plus their many peripherals, and assessed their suitability for desktop and field astronomy and cybersketching. In this part we take a closer look at the various kinds of software that bring the skies to our screens and enable us to convert our stylus strokes into cybersketches. A complete guide to the relevant astronomical software and all the graphics programs available for PCs and PDAs will not be presented here. However, we will attempt to present as balanced a view as possible, pointing out a few of the better programs and discussing their merits when applied to cybersketching.
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Grego, P. (2009). Electronic Skies. In: Astronomical Cybersketching. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85351-2_6
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