Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images

Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71352-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 177 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 302 g

Reihe: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series

This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The book describes how similar "Hubble class" images can be created by amateur astronomers in their back garden using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the "electronic darkroom" is covered in detail as well. A range of telescopes and equipment is considered, from the author’s 11-inch with Hyperstar camera, down to more affordable instruments. Appendices provide links to free software – not available from a single source – and are themselves an invaluable resource.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Sachbuch
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

How did I start?.- The Beginning – and a Serious Health~Warning!.- Assembling your Imaging System.- Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing.- A Permanent Setup.- First Light – Choosing your Objects.- First Light – your First Objects.- Hyperstar Imaging.- Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor.- Basic Image Processing.- The Deep-Sky Images.- Differentiating your Work.- Your Largest Resource.- Book Recommendations.

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Greg Parker is Head of the Nanoscale Systems Integration Group at Southampton University in Southern England. His deep sky astronomical images have been published in Astronomy Now and Sky at Night magazines. He is the author of Introductory Semiconductor Device Physics (IOP, ISBN 0750310219), and has written many scientific papers and articles, mostly in the area of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as a chapter (Guided-wave Optical Communications: Materials) in Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Materials: Science & Technology.