For all but the simplest star-trail pictures, photographing the night sky involves machinery to track the stars, and the task becomes even more complicated when photographing very small or very faint objects that require high magnification or very long exposure times. Astrophotography for Amateurs presents equipment and techniques, features practical hints and tips from the experts, including coverage of traditional "wet" photography, CCD imaging, and computerized image enhancement. There are sections on photographing different classes of astronomical object from the moon to faint nebulae, as well as a detailed look at the equipment needed.
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A good compliment to other Astrophotography texts,
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This book I feel takes up topics that Michael Covington's "Astrophotography for the Amatuer" and Robert Reeve's "Wide-Field Astrophotography" leave off. The two afore-mentioned texts deal with the techniques, exposure times and equipment for astrophotography more deeply. "Practical Astrophotography" as the title suggests deals better with practical considerations: what to pack on you field trips, what you need for those foreign excursions, etc. This is what sets this book aside from the others. Sure, Jeffery Charles covers the basic techniques very competently, also, but doesn't go as deeply as the other two books. And he concentrates on film photography only.
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Good book to start with, especially with its tables of exposures and detailed background technical info on optics & photography. Good descriptions of simplified focal length, exposure, magnification and other calculations.Absolutely no information on CCD photography. The layout of the book is not very good for applying step-by-step approach for beginners, the process is mixed in with descriptions of technical background.
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Good book to start with, especially with its tables of exposures and detailed background technical info on optics & photography. Good descriptions of simplified focal length, exposure, magnification and other calculations.Absolutely no information on CCD photography. The layout of the book is not very good for applying step-by-step approach for beginners, the process is mixed in with descriptions of technical background.
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With today's automatic cameras, basic photography is literally a snap. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
guiding reflector, telecompressor lens, lunar umbra, piggyback photos, sidereal drive, deep sky photos, afocal method, umbral boundary, good astrophotos, afocal photography, barn door mount, vacuum easel, piggyback photography, separate guide scope, deep sky astrophotography, auxiliary optics, polar alignment scope, reticle eyepiece, wide angle reflector, deep sky photography, afocal imaging, reticle lines, same exposure value, camera finder, accurate polar alignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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guiding reflector, telecompressor lens, lunar umbra, piggyback photos, sidereal drive, deep sky photos, afocal method, umbral boundary, good astrophotos, afocal photography, barn door mount, vacuum easel, piggyback photography, separate guide scope, deep sky astrophotography, auxiliary optics, polar alignment scope, reticle eyepiece, wide angle reflector, deep sky photography, afocal imaging, reticle lines, same exposure value, camera finder, accurate polar alignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Practical Astrophotography, Adobe Photoshop, Milky Way, Astrophotography Basics, Little Dipper, Pierre Schwaar, Richard Payne, Ursa Major, Estes Park, Ursa Minor New!
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- Seeing Stars by P. Moore in Front Matter
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- The Sun in Eclipse (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Michael Maunder in Front Matter
- The Observational Amateur Astronomer (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Patrick Moore in Front Matter
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- Choosing and Using a Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope : A Guide to Commercial SCTs and Maksutovs (Practical Astronomy.) by Rod Mollise in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- AstroFaqs : Questions Astronomers Frequently Ask (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) by Stephen F. Tonkin in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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