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Author Buick, Tony.

Title How to photograph the moon and planets with your digital camera / Tony Buick and Philip Pugh
Edition 2nd ed
Published New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 345 pages) : color illustrations
Series Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series
Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series.
Contents Note on the Second Edition by Philip Pugh -- Foreword by Sir Patrick Moore -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Choosing Your Equipment -- Chapter 3: Setting Up -- Chapter 4: Photographing the Phases of the Moon -- Chapter 5: Identifiying Regions of the Moon -- Chapter 6: Techniques for Photographing the Moon -- Chapter 7: Photographing Lunar Events -- Chapter 8: Processing Lunar Images -- Chapter 9: Solar System Moons -- Chapter 10: Photographing the Planets -- Chapter 11: The Sun -- Chapter 12: Transits -- Chapter 13: And What Else? -- Chapter 14: A Few Final Words -- Appendix -- Glossary -- Index
Summary Although astronomical CCD cameras can be very costly, digital cameras -- the kind you use on holiday -- on the other hand, are relatively inexpensive. Moreover, their technology -- especially thermal noise, sensitivity (ISO number) and resolution -- has progressed to a point where such cameras are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects. Now Tony Buick has teamed up with fellow author and astro imager Phil Pugh, to produce a completely revised, updated, and extended second edition to How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with your Digital Camera, first published i
Analysis fysica
physics
fotografie
photography
astronomie
astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomie
Notes Includes index
English
Print version record
Subject Astronomical photography -- Amateurs' manuals
Photography -- Digital techniques -- Amateurs' manuals
NATURE -- Sky Observation.
Physique.
Astronomie.
Astronomical photography
Photography -- Digital techniques
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Pugh, Philip (Philip M.), 1955-
ISBN 9781441958280
1441958282
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9781283088268
9786613088260
6613088269