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Hunting and Imaging Comets

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Description for Hunting and Imaging Comets Paperback.
For many astronomers, the holy grail of observation is to discover a comet, not least because comets always bear the name of their discoverer! Hunting and Imaging Comets was written for comet hunters and digital imagers who want to discover, rediscover, monitor, and make pictures of comets using astronomical CCD cameras and DSLRs. The old days of the purely visual comet hunter are pretty much over, but this is not to say that amateurs have lost interest in finding comets. The books also covers the discovery of comet fragments in the SOHO image data, CCD monitoring of older comets ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
394
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441969040
SKU
V9781441969040
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Martin Mobberley
Martin Mobberley is a well-known amateur astronomer from Suffolk, England, who joined the British Astronomical Association in 1969, aged eleven, initially as a visual observer. Since the early 1980s he has been a regular photographer and imager of comets, planets, asteroids, variable stars, novae, and supernovae. He served as one of the youngest presidents of the British Astronomical Association, from ... Read more

Reviews for Hunting and Imaging Comets
From the reviews: “Presents an entertaining and motivating guide for backyard observers to search for and image comets and near-Earth objects. … Mobberly shares anecdotes about the discovery of notable comets and advice for how amateur astronomers can compete for discoveries with the current and upcoming large-scale automated sky surveys … . It is written for a reader with ... Read more

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