Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Privett, Grant (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Springer London, 2007.
• Σειρά: Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series,
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

Digital imaging is now available to all amateur astronomers at a reasonable price. The advent of CCDs, DSLRs and – perhaps most significantly – webcams mean today’s astronomers can make colorful planetary or deep-sky images of breathtaking beauty. The results obtained with even modest equipment can...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgements.-The myriad advantages of image processing (introduction)
• Choosing a camera
• Acquiring images (and choosing software)
• Displaying images
• Image reduction
• Flat fields
• Dark subtraction
• Image transformations
• Image stacking
• Image mosaicing
• Image scaling and histograms
• Background gradients
• Image enhancement
• Image sharpening
• Image unsharp masking
• Image deconvolution
• Handling colour images
• Achieving colour balance
• CMY or RGB?- Other problems
• Handling image sequences and webcams
• Image acquisition
• Image quality techniques
• Automated image processing
• What is best for
• Planets
• Deep Sky
• Widefield imaging
• The pitfalls
• Postscript
• Notes on image contributors
• Appendices
• Software
• Hardware + Software Suppliers
• References
• Further reading
• Index.