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How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
Buick, Tony; Pugh, Philip
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Description for How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
Paperback. Fully updated and revised, this volume reveals techniques to photograph space with a digital camera. New technological developments are included, and the text has been expanded to cover H-alpha light, photographing constellations and basic post-imaging processing. Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Num Pages: 346 pages, 297 black & white illustrations, 60 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 558.
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 in 2006. The revisions take into ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781441958273
SKU
V9781441958273
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About Buick, Tony; Pugh, Philip
Although Tony Buick in his career worked in medical, veterinary, and agricultural science, specializing in analytical chemistry, he turned to his lifelong interest in astronomy following an early retirement and has encouraged the younger generation to observe and understand the sky while teaching science, computing, and geography. His fascination with the Moon was given a further boost through ... Read more
Reviews for How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
On the first edition (2006): Buick, an experienced amateur astronomer, uses his own images... to illustrate a variety of equipment... [N]ovice imagers can rest assured that the images here are what the beginner can realistically expect to achieve... I enjoyed this book, and learned from it too.
Peter Grego, in Popular Astronomy, July-September 2006 The color images he has ... Read more
Peter Grego, in Popular Astronomy, July-September 2006 The color images he has ... Read more