Description: This book explores the development and use of software for astronomy, describing control systems for pointing the telescope and operating its cameras and spectrographs, web-based tools used to plan observations and analysis and archiving of acquired data.
Review Quotes: "This work is very important for the interested people because it is able to give a complete and professional overview, together with all the correct references which will provide the more in-depth knowledge of each single topic. ... It plays the role of the expert which can give to the beginner the fundamental concepts and the right hints to pursue its career and education, something that everybody would have wished to have at the beginning of his or her studies." (Gabriella Bernardi, Astrocom et al., astrocometal.blogspot.de, December, 2016)