- Jubilee offer: spend £10 or more on any product sold by Amazon.co.uk on or before June 6 and you can buy The Diamond Jubilee A Classical Celebration Album for just £2.50 Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £1.10
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £1.10, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
From the reviews: "This is not a guide to deep sky imaging in general, but more a journey of one man’s embarkation into this exciting topic. … What I found most impressive was that the topics are kept simple and to the point. … I believe this book has a wealth of information for anybody who wishes to pursue astrophotography as a hobby … . Would I recommend it? Well the simple answer is yes, there is a lot of inspiration to be gained and put into practice." (Ed Sampson, Astronomy Now, June, 2008) "Parker’s book is comprised of fourteen chapters spanning 155 pages and two appendices which make up a further six pages. … provides a list of 14 books which give a broad perspective on astronomy and can open doors to the newcomer with general information on astronomy as well as potential targets. … the book provides a good introduction to astrophotography that would be ideally suited to someone contemplating this addictive aspect of amateur astronomy." (Anthony Ayiomamitis, The Observatory, Vol. 128 (1205), August, 2008)
Product Description
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.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Professor Greg Parker has been taking deep sky CCD images for only about 3 years, but in that time he has published many of the best pictures of nebulae that I have ever seen! In this book he has documented the equipment and methods that he uses in a clear and easily followed manner, so that the aspiring CCD astronomer can emulate his results. Greg takes us from choosing the most appropriate telescope and camera, through selecting objects to image, capturing the images and to processing the results. Processing is perhaps the most critical part of achieving a beautiful result and about 50% of the book is devoted to this, with plenty of example images to examine. My only minor criticism is that many of the pictures have been printed in a smaller than necessary format, but they are still spectacular! This book is a worthy addition to the shelves of any CCD imaging enthusiast and I can strongly recommend it.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is rather self indulgent. If you want to know what the author has and does and be impressed by it then well and good.
If you are prepared to wade though the text there is valuable information in there. On the other hand it is too much hard work for me.
The author's idea of affordable equipment is born of a deeper pocket than mine.
If you are prepared to wade though the text there is valuable information in there. On the other hand it is too much hard work for me.
The author's idea of affordable equipment is born of a deeper pocket than mine.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very good book but the sub heading is misleading. Affordable equipment???
One persons affordable is another's flipping expensive.The author uses some very nice gear but I for one would find it beyond my budget.
One persons affordable is another's flipping expensive.The author uses some very nice gear but I for one would find it beyond my budget.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Art, Architecture & Photography
- Books > Computing & Internet > Software & Graphics > Graphics & Multimedia > Image Manipulation & Creation > Digital Photography
- Books > Science & Nature > Astronomy & Cosmology > Astronomy > Popular Astronomy
- Books > Science & Nature > Mathematics > Popular Maths
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
