Parker Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images

Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71353-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten

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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Greg

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;7
2;Preface;10
3;Acknowledgements;11
4;How did I start?;12
5;The Beginning – and a Serious Health Warning!;25
6;Assembling your Imaging System;28
7;Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing;47
8;A Permanent Setup;52
9;First Light – Choosing your Objects;56
10;First Light – your First Objects;64
11;Hyperstar Imaging;68
12;Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor;75
13;Basic Image Processing;78
14;The Deep-Sky Images;99
15;Differentiating your Work;143
16;Your Largest Resource;150
17;Book Recommendations;155
18;The Angular Size of Objects in the Sky;158
19;The Designation of Deep- Sky Objects;160
20;Physics World Article;164
21;Greg Parker;167
22;Postscript – and a Tiny Admission;171
23;Index;173