Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images

Cover -- Contents -- CH 1 The Joy of Image Processing -- CH 2 A Digital Image -- The Basics -- CH 3 Choosing Your Camera -- CH 4 Acquiring Images -- CH 5 What Is Best for -- The Moon and Planets -- Deep Sky -- Aurora and Meteors -- The Sun -- Comets -- CH 6 Displaying Images -- CH 7 Image Reduction -- The Importance of Dark Frames -- Taking Your Dark Frames -- Creating Master Darks -- Flat-Fields -- Processing Your Flat-Field -- Bias Frames -- Image Transformations -- Image Stacking -- Image Mosaicing -- Automated Image Reduction -- Image Handling -- Histograms -- Brightness Scaling -- False Color Rendition -- CH 8 Other Techniques -- Statistics -- FITS Editor -- Pixel Editing -- Bloom and Fault Correction -- Night Visualization -- Profiles -- Isophotes -- Polar Representation -- Bas Relief and 3D -- Blinking -- DDP -- Edge Detectors -- Masks and Blending -- CH 9 Image Enhancement -- Background Gradient Removal -- Image Sharpening -- Image Smoothing -- Median Filtering -- Unsharp Masking -- Image Deconvolution -- CH 10 Handling Color Images -- Acquiring Color Composites -- Processing Color Composites -- Achieving Color Balance -- Narrow-Band Filter Composite Images -- CH 11 Handling Image Sequences -- Image Acquisition -- Image Quality Techniques -- CH 12 Astrometry and Photometry -- CH 13 The Problems -- CH 14 Postscript -- CH 15 Notes on Image Contributors -- CH 16 Appendix -- Software -- Hardware -- Further Reading -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Index -- Last Page.