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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Capture the Planets with Video, April 25, 2001
Anyone wanting to take images of the moon, the sun or the planets (within a tight budget)will love the easy how-to guide. I couldn't believe the results I was able to obtain with my old Panasonic camcorder held up to the eyepiece of my 6 inch telescope. The book is easy to read and very nicely illustrated. There is also a guide to building your own compact black and white video camera at back which I built and was amazed at the image quality from a camera that cost about $ in parts to build. There is excellent information on image processing and how to make time-lapsed animation movies on the computer from pictures taken with video cameras. I would highly recommend this book to any amateur astronomer experiencing difficulties with normal film photography of the planets especially. Well worth the investment and a real time saver!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A Great Guide to Simple Imaging, August 14, 2002
We have had a telescope left unused in our back shed for many years because we had simply lost interest and time. A friend told us about the book Video Astronomy so we decided to buy it and try out the techniques. Both my husband and I were amazed that we could record the moon and some of the planets so effortlessly using low cost video cameras used for security. The book has a nice simple guide to building your own camera with parts you can find at a local electronics parts dealer. We did this and were delighted at how simple it was to use. Our interest in at least using our telescope has been renewed since reading this informative little book. We highly recommend it to anyone wanting to take pictures of the planets and the moon.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Handy Book, August 6, 2001
Since starting with video cameras a couple of years ago now using a 4-inch refractor I found this book very handy. It offers a lot of good tips and ideas. Some of the pictures could have been larger but the subject is well covered and easy to understand. A good all around book and addition to the library if you want to record the moon and planets with video gear you might already own.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Video Astronomy book, September 7, 2008
The title to this edition and the first edition published in 2000 offer a book that has relatively little to do with video. Both editions are astrophotography books, and only use the video camera to capture multiple images to stack and make better astrophotos. If your looking for premier advanced video techniques, leads to low cost top end video cameras, methods, techniques and software, then seek out the leader in video astronomy - the International Occultation Timing Association and its related websites. IOTA's free book on occultations and video techniques is here: http://www.poyntsource.com/IOTAmanual/Preview.htm
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Good practical book for amateurs, February 27, 2005
This is a very useful book for those wanting to learn how to take pictures of the planets, the moon, the sun and even nebula and galaxies now with low-cost equipment. The revised edition better illustrates the current technolgy of webcams and video cameras used by amateurs today. There appear to be several new and replaced illustrations over the first edition with more up-to-date information etc. Unfortunately the book still presents many of the pictures in a smaller format like the original. Even so it still remains a great reference guide and better explores the use of video as a tool for imaging DSO's.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Video astronomy review, May 29, 2001
This book is billed as "a complete guide to video astronomy." It does cover a fair amount but it is far from what it boasts. A complete guide should have much more then this book has. I am not a novice to the video astronomy field and I was looking for more information on many levels but this provided little for me. If you are a total novice to the ccd video field, you may enjoy this book. It is not a cookbook- leading through the video astronomy field step by step but it manages cover many of the basics. It covers many basics about equipment and other types of information.There are technical sections on the hardware which is probbaly the best part of the book. But you may soon find that you will have to find another book in the field to cover the gaps this book has. Missing are: (1) lack of information on hardware and software options for editing etc (there is very little in the way of information on any items besides snappy which out of business and other older products. While it is difficult to keep current much is missing in the way of resources that were avilable at the time the book was created. (2) asteroids and comet hunting is barely mentioned as are other topics which are targets for current and past CCD astronomy users. (3) some areas are too technical while other areas are not technical enough (4) Little is said about storage or transfer of ccd images (5) Little is said about the use of imaging editors, capture cards, software etc which is information you will need after you get your device or make on and then begin using it. (6) Little is mentioned about using the internet either to find addtional resources, posting your images, transferring images etc
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A classic book, July 11, 2006
I bought both versions of this book by Sky Publishing. The revised / second edition is still limited by small illustrations but does a wonderful job of illustrating and describing the newer video technologies that now allow us to photograph faint objects like galaxies ,nebulae, supernova and comets. It still remains a very good reference to video imaging as an alternative and simple to apply medium although it would have been nice to see some more detail on the image processing techniques used by the authors and the many users of video in astronmy.
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