Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software /
Amateur astronomers, using commercially available equipment, have taken some beautiful and awe-inspiring color photographs of deep-sky objects. But how? Professor Greg Parker's astronomical photographs are widely known for their excellence, and a selection of them has recently been shown as a p...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71353-3 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.