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| View Larger Image | CCD Astrophotography: High-Quality Imaging from the Suburbs (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)
by Adam Stuart
| | List Price: | $34.95 | | Price: | $23.07 | | You Save: | $11.88 (34%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 452405 | | Studio: | Springer | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 196 | | Publication Date: | June 05, 2006 | | Publisher: | Springer |
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Product Description
Not all amateur astronomers who live in a suburban location realize just how very effective a ‘chilled-chip’ astronomical CCD-camera and software can be at cutting through seemingly impenetrable light-pollution. CCD Astrophotography from the Suburbs details one man’s approach to the problem of getting high-quality astronomical images under light-polluted conditions. Adam Stuart has written this reference book for all amateur astronomers who are interested in CCD imaging, especially those who have to work under suburban conditions. The book outlines the materials and (commercially-available) equipment used for high-quality imaging. The many wonderful images Dr. Stuart has produced allow the reader to see the product of – initially – a fellow beginner’s efforts. The glorious images found in numerous books, and especially those seen in Sky and Telescope magazine – might seem out of reach. But this is not really the case. Respectable images are attainable with modest equipment. This book outlines a complete and thoroughly tested working program for every beginner to achieve high-quality digital imaging. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 18 reviews)
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Getting Better 
At first I did not like the book much and it sat on my shelve. I revisited it recently and have changed my mind. There is a lot of information contained within its pages. It may not be the best laid out book for beginners and the Observatory section needs to be dropped, never the less if you read through it you can learn a lot. It is with out doubt an improvement on some of the astrophotography books in the Practical Astronomy series, some of which should never have been printed but there is still room for a good intro book in this area.
August 18, 2008 | |
I am a little bit disappointed
I could hardly wait for this book because I live next to a more than 2 million-city (Budapest) in Hungary and half of the night sky is terrible from my backyard; so the main reason behind my ordering this book was its subtitle.
But the truth is that only the very first section (seven pages incl. pictures and PC screenshots) of this book deals with this problem and that is just a kind of approach from bird's eye view; the rest of the text is a "normal" and elementary level astro-photo book. (And I have much better astro photography and image processing sources as Wodarski or Berry&Burnell...)
At the same time, there are too many pictures (roughly 1/3 of the book!!!) as sample image collection. Some of them are really very nice shots and some others are poor but without any explanations regarding the features of their capture and/or image processing.
So this book is not bad at all but I can recommend it for beginners only as another overview about new technology of astro-photography and there is nothing special in it.
April 23, 2008 | |
Great first book 
Very down to earth information that was helpful to someone like me who is just getting started. He was very gracious when I contacted him with further questions! How many authors can you do that with.... I recommend this book as a great read.
April 20, 2008 | |
CCD Astrophotography Book
Not bad really. This book is not AT ALL intended for the routine person who is interested in astronomy, and wishes to use his digital SLR camera in combination with his telescope to do astrophotography.
I find the title to be a bit unclear. This book would be useful for someone who is interested in doing CCD astrophotography, but not to the more common use of a digital camera to do astrophotography.
This is not a bad book, but it certainly is not the correct book for someone with an upscale SLR digital camera who also owns a telescope who wishes to combine the two hobbies.
NOTE: At the request of the author I have modified my previous comments to make them clearer.
March 10, 2008 | |
Not for beginners 
The first word that comes to mind regarding Adam Stuarts book is disappointing. Perhaps If he did not proclaim it was a beginners book...
I have no doubt someone can find some value perhaps so, but I could not. I have been looking for some time for a book that would address the questions a beginner would have in astro imaging. I have purchased an LX200 8 inch I have been an avid amateur astronomer for 40 years when I purchased this scope the dealer had an offer on astro imaging equipment that I took advantage of.
Unfortunately the instructions were not helpful. Some theory was in order, which I had hoped this book would address. Perhaps with some basics addressed in plain English I could then go back and better utilize the equipment.
It seems that there are people who can adapt quickly to this kind of photography with little or no help but I belong to a different group I need to know why things are done and in what order. For instance how do you determine how long to provide for each image when you need to take perhaps hundreds of images. And when using color how long for each filter how many images per filter and how many images in total. Of course, I have other questions but I am still looking for that "beginners book."
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