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Astrophotography for the Amateur
With this extraordinary handbook, you, too, can frame the stars and have them hanging on your livingroom walls. Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to taking pictures of stars, galaxies, the Moon, the Sun, comets, meteors and eclipses, using equipment and materials readily available to the hobbyist. Based on suggestions from readers of the first edit...more
Paperback, 346 pages
Published
June 28th 1999
by Cambridge University Press
(first published November 27th 1985)
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Excellent overview of the process for taking pictures of deep sky objects. Very good reference tables on exposure times for various objects etc.
Particularly good descriptions of digital image processing, how CCD imaging works, and the importance of proper polar alignment. This book includes extensive descriptions of imaging with film. Mr. Covington now has a newer book out which focuses exclusively on CCD imaging. If you are getting started as I am, move on to the CCD book and ...more
Particularly good descriptions of digital image processing, how CCD imaging works, and the importance of proper polar alignment. This book includes extensive descriptions of imaging with film. Mr. Covington now has a newer book out which focuses exclusively on CCD imaging. If you are getting started as I am, move on to the CCD book and ...more
Very good intro to astrophotography. Using this book as a reference I took a number of good pictures of the planet and the Moon.
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