Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images
A Guide for Practical Astronomers
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images “
- Acknowledgements1. 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
Autoren-Porträt von Grant Privett
Grant Privett works for the Ministry of Defence in the UK, heading up the Advanced Image Processing Team.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Grant Privett
- 2007, 2007, 142 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, London
- ISBN-10: 1846285801
- ISBN-13: 9781846285806
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.03.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
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