Creating and enhancing digital astro images
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Creating and enhancing digital astro images
（Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series）
Springer, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Digital electronic imaging devices allow the wonders of the universe to be seen in detail never before possible from an amateur astronomer's backyard. This book clearly examines how to create the best astronomical images possible with a digital camera. It reveals the astonishing images that can be obtained with simple equipment, the right software, and knowledge of how to use it. Completely jargon-free, the book describes how to extract results from the raw-and-dirty original imagery and then transform them into high-quality pictures suitable for framing, posting online, or sharing with friends and colleagues.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. The myriad advantages of image processing (introduction)
2. Choosing a camera
3. Acquiring images (and choosing software)
4. Displaying images
5. Image reduction
Flat fields
Dark subtraction
Image transformations
Image stacking
Image mosaicing
Image scaling and histograms
Background gradients
6. Image enhancement
Image sharpening
Image unsharp masking
Image deconvolution
7. Handling colour images
Achieving colour balance
CMY or RGB?
Other problems
8. Handling image sequences and webcams
Image acquisition
Image quality techniques
Automated image processing
9. What is best for...
Planets
Deep Sky
Widefield imaging
10. The pitfalls
11. Postscript
Notes on image contributors
Appendices
Software
Hardware + Software Suppliers
References
Further reading
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"