How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera

• Main Author: Buick, Tony (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Series: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Planetology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Using just a regular digital camera along with an amateur astronomical telescope, anyone can produce spectacular photographs of the Moon, as well as surprisingly good images of major planets. Purpose-made astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, but technology has now progressed so that di...

Table of Contents:

• Equipment
• The Magic Ingredient
• Method
• The Universe and You
• Targets
• Our Moon
• The Moon — First Glance
• Regions of the Moon
• Moon Features and Techniques
• Lunar Events
• Solar System Moons
• The Planets
• The Sun
• Transits
• And What Else?
• In Conclusion.