How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera by Tony Buick

How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera by Tony Buick

Since the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional observatories just a decade ago. However, astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, and technology has now progressed so that digital cameras - the kind you use on holiday - are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets. Tony Buick has worked for two years on the techniques involved, and has written this illustrated step-by-step manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any size) and a digital camera. The color images he has produced - there are over 300 of them in the book - are of breathtaking quality. His book is more than a manual of techniques (including details of how to make a low-cost DIY camera mount) and examples; it also provides a concise photographic atlas of the whole of the nearside of the Moon - with every image made using a standard digital camera - and describes the various lunar features, including the sites of manned and robotic landings.

Dr. Tony Buick is a chemist by profession and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In the area of amateur astronomy, he has contributed to Sky at Night, MENSA, the Society for Popular Astronomy and various other magazines and journals. Upon his retirement, Dr. Buick returned to his lifelong interest in astronomy, prompting the research that forms the foundation of this book. He has a wide range of interests, from the infinite-- through a telescope--to the infinitesimal--through a microscope--and has in addition to his astronomy work published articles on tardigrades, robust microscopic animals that can even survive in space.

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ISBN 13	9781852339906
ISBN 10	185233990X
Title	How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
Author	Tony Buick
Series	The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer London Ltd
Year published	2006-02-01
Number of pages	288
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