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Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide|Martin Mobberley

Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide

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This book aims to de-mystify the jargon of webcams and computer processing and provides detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon and planets with a webcam. It demonstrates how inexpensive technology is revolutionizing imaging in amateur astronomy. These advances have enabled anyone with a modest telescope and a webcam to obtain jaw-dropping lunar and planetary images to rival those taken with cameras costing thousands of dollars. A glance through the images in this book shows just what spectacular results can be achieved by using a webcam with a telescope. Each observing target is dealt with separately, so specialized techniques are explained in context. The book further explains how webcams can be connected direct to a PC so that software can be used to "stack" multiple images, providing a stunning increase in image quality.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781846281976
  • ISBN-10: 1846281970
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publish Date: May 2006
  • Dimensions: 9.26 x 6.28 x 0.56 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.21 pounds
  • Page Count: 230

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