Lunar and Planetary Webcam User’s Guide

• Main Author: Mobberley, Martin (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.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Inexpensive webcams are revolutionizing imaging in amateur astronomy by providing an affordable alternative to cooled-chip astronomical CCD cameras, for photographing the brighter astronomical objects. Webcams – costing only a few tens of dollars – are capable of more advanced high resolution work t...

Table of Contents:

• The Solar System: A Brief Introduction
• Webcams, Plus a “Quick Start” Guide
• High-Resolution Essentials
• Planetary Imagers Worldwide
• Have Webcam, Will Travel
• Planetary Webcams and Their Alternatives
• A Beginner’s Guide to Using a Webcam
• Detailed Image Processing, Colors and LRGB
• Advanced Stacking of Rippling AVI Frames
• Imaging the Moon
• Imaging Mercury and Venus
• Imaging Mars
• Imaging Jupiter
• Imaging Saturn
• Imaging Uranus and Neptune
• Imaging the Sun.