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Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Parker
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 269423
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 178
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 0387713522
Dewey Decimal Number: 520
EAN: 9780387713526
ASIN: 0387713522
Publication Date: October 11, 2007
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Product Description
This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The images were used as the basis of a public exhibition held at the University of Southampton (Summer 2006), attended by the press, local radio and TV interviewers as well as the public. The book describes how similar images can be created by amateur astronomers, using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the “electronic darkroom” is covered in detail as well. Not everybody can afford the biggest and best telescopes and CCD cameras, so 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.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Saved me a pile of money. September 26, 2008
Stephen Thoemmes (AZ, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was all set on purchasing a CCD camera for my Celestron C14. After much research I was going to go with the Hyper-Star camera. After reading this book I saw that this choice would be fraught with technical problems more suited to a professional or highly neurotic astro-photographer. Just contemplating trying to focus the Hyper Star camera with a tolerance of microns made my choice plain. I wasn't going to spend thousands on a camera only useable on one telescope. This book more than paid for itself.
As far as the other data in the book, I glossed over the author's pet products. I also appreciated the fine photos even being in such a small format book.
 I made the wrong decision March 25, 2008
Y. Ma (Germantown, MD USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book does contain some very beautiful DSO images, but other than that it is a unfortunate disappointment to me. Not only because the 'Affordable' here in this book seems not too affordable - at least to me I'd consider a Stellarvue 80ED is much more affordable than Tak Sky90. Some impression I got from this book was unless you have a Tak 90 otherwise you won't get DSO pictures even close to the author had produced.
Maybe you found this book is good for you, but I did not. Sorry.
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