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Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers)

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For a graduate student who has not had an observational astronomy course, the process of self-teaching the essentials of CCD astronomy is not a smooth one. You really don't know what kind of things you have to worry about before going to a telescope!

Though this book does not cover comprehensively the topic of detection techniques in scientific contexts (too much for such a small book), it has an excellent, totally readable introduction to the basics of CCD detection in astronomy. The author obviously has been in the field for a long time, so his numerous anecdotes from his rich, past expericnes are entertaining as well as enlightening. It is such a short book but very satisfying, which is rare for a technical science book.

This book would make a perfect textbook or supplement reading for any decent undergraduate observational astronomy course. Highly recommended as the first reading for observers.

Steve is the master of the art of CCD photometry. This is an essential book for professional astronomers and amateurs alike.

I loved it,... i though me EVERY thing about CCDs,...how do they work...and how to understand the results....