Making Beautiful Deep Sky Images Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software 2nd Edition by Greg Parker 9783319463162 3319463160

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• ISBN 10:3319463160 

• ISBN 13:9783319463162

• Author:Greg Parker 

Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images
Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The book describes how similar “Hubble class” images can be created by amateur astronomers in their back garden using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the “electronic darkroom” is covered in detail as well. A range of telescopes and equipment is considered, from the author’s 11-inch with Hyperstar camera, down to more affordable instruments. Appendices provide links to free software – not available from a single source – and are themselves an invaluable resource.

Making Beautiful Deep Sky Images Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software 2nd Table of contents:

Chapter 1: How did I start?
Conclusions
Chapter 2: The Beginning – and a Serious Health Warning
Chapter 3: Assembling your Imaging System
Refractor or Reflector, or Perhaps Both?
Reflecting Telescope as the Main Imaging Scope
Refractor as the Main Imaging Telescope
Reflector/Refractor Imaging Combination
Polar Alignment
Collimation of an SCT
The CCD Camera
Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS SCT
Takahashi Sky 90 Refractor
Sub-exposure Times
Narrowband Imaging and Light Pollution Filters
Chapter 4: Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing
The “Powerhouse” Indoor Computer System
The South Dome Computer System
The North Dome Computer System – the mini-WASP Array
Chapter 5: A Permanent Setup
Chapter 6: First Light – Choosing your Objects
Some Possible Examples
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Other Things to Image
Chapter 7: First Light – your First Objects
Stop Press!
Chapter 8: Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor
Chapter 9: Hyperstar III Imaging
Chapter 10: Parallel Imaging with an Array
History of the imaging systems at the New Forest Observatory
The Sky 90 imaging array
The Canon EF 200 mm f#2.8 prime lens imagers on the mini-­WASP array
Chapter 11: Fundamentals of Image Processing
Very first step: sift the data
Processing a star field
Processing a nebula
Creating a mosaic
Chapter 12: Processing Professional Data
Chapter 13: The Deep-Sky Images
Chapter 14: Differentiating your Work
Asteroid 162 Laurentia
Chapter 15: Your Largest Resource
Chapter 16: Book Recommendations
Appendix 1 The Angular Size of Objects in the Sky
Appendix 2 The Designation of Deep-Sky Objects
General Deep-Sky Objects
Diffuse Nebula
Dark Nebulae
Open Clusters
Galaxies
Galaxy Clusters
Greg Parker
University Website Biography
Physics World Article
The Most Amazing 21/2 Hours of my Life – So Far!
Postscript to the Second Edition
Index
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