Deep-Sky Video Astronomy

• Main Authors: Quirk, Steve (Author), Massey, Steve (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Series: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Space sciences.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Need a concise guide to using modern video cameras for deep-sky viewing and imaging with the kinds of modest telescopes available commercially to amateur astronomers? Here it is. In this book you are given the basics of this highly efficient technology, which is already beginning to compete with ast...

Table of Contents:

• Using Video for Astronomy
• Cameras
• Video Capture
• At the Telescope
• Initial Processing
• Final Processing
• Other Video Applications
• The Gallery.