A Visual Astronomer's Photographic Guide to the Deep Sky: A Pocket Field Guide

by Stefan Rumistrzewicz

Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and, indeed, check images as they scan the skies. Processing techniques using computer software have also made 'developing' these images more accessible to those of us who are 'chemically challenged ' And let's face it - some of the pictures you...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441972412
• ISBN13: 9781441972415
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.9"