How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera

By: Tony Buick, Philip Pugh

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Paperback | 28 January 2011 | Edition Number 2

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Although astronomical CCD cameras can be very costly, digital cameras - the kind you use on holiday - on the other hand, are relatively inexpensive. Moreover, their technology - especially thermal noise, sensitivity (ISO number) and resolution - has progressed to a point where such cameras are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects.

Now Tony Buick has teamed up with fellow author and astro imager Phil Pugh, to produce a completely revised, updated, and extended second edition to How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with your Digital Camera, first published in 2006. The revisions take into account changing (and improving) camera technology, and some items which are now available commercially but which previously had to be home-made. The section of solar observing has been expanded to include observing by H-alpha light, and among the many additional sections are photographing the constellations, aurorae, and basic post-imaging processing.

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On the first edition (2006): Buick, an experienced amateur astronomer, uses his own images... to illustrate a variety of equipment... [N]ovice imagers can rest assured that the images here are what the beginner can realistically expect to achieve... I enjoyed this book, and learned from it too. --Peter Grego, in Popular Astronomy, July-September 2006 The color images he has produced - there are over 300 of them in the book - are of breathtaking quality. His book is more than a manual of techniques (including details of how to make a low-cost DIY camera mount) and examples; it also provides a concise photographic atlas of the whole of the nearside of the Moon - with every image made using a standard digital camera - and describes the various lunar features, including the sites of manned and robotic landings. --eBook30.com

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Notes on the Second Edition	p. vii
Foreword to First Edition	p. ix
Preface to the First Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Getting Started	p. 1
What Is Possible?	p. 3
Choosing Your Equipment	p. 11
Useful Camera Functions	p. 15
Choosing a Telescope	p. 19
The Magic Ingredient	p. 29
Setting Up	p. 39
Attaching the Camera	p. 39
Focus	p. 45
Other Factors	p. 47
Targets	p. 52
Photographing the Phases of the Moon	p. 57
The Moon's Appearance in Our Sky	p. 57
The Phases of the Moon	p. 60
Identifying Regions of the Moon	p. 73
Mare Serenitatis Region	p. 73
Mare Frigoris Region	p. 76
Mare Tranquillitatis Region	p. 78
Northeast Region	p. 84
Mare Imbrium Region	p. 86
Plato Region	p. 87
Oceanus Procellarum	p. 90
Northwest Region	p. 92
Mare Nubium Region	p. 93
Southern Moon: Tycho Region	p. 95
Mare Humorum and South Oceanus Procellarum	p. 97
Southwest Region	p. 97
Southeast Central Region	p. 99
Central Southern Region	p. 101
Maria Fecunditatis and Nectaris	p. 103
Southeast Region	p. 105
Techniques for Photographing the Moon	p. 107
Photographing Lunar Events	p. 177
Lunar Eclipse	p. 177
Earthshine	p. 180
Transient Lunar Phenomena (TLPs)	p. 181
A Chance Sighting?	p. 185
And Finally for the Moon	p. 188
Processing Lunar Images	p. 189
Examples of Processing	p. 190
Composing Mosaics	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 204
Solar System Moons	p. 205
Jupiter's Moons	p. 206
Saturn's Moons	p. 210
Photographing the Planets	p. 215
Equipment	p. 217
Jupiter	p. 218
Saturn	p. 224
Venus	p. 230
Mercury	p. 231
Mars	p. 234
The Sun	p. 239
Sunspots	p. 241
Eclipses of the Sun	p. 245
Narrowband Solar Photography	p. 248
The Coronado PST	p. 249
Solar Photography	p. 250
Mounting Options	p. 253
Post Processing	p. 253
Disc Features	p. 269
Filaments	p. 273
PST CaK	p. 276
Transits	p. 279
Mercury	p. 280
Venus	p. 283
And What Else?	p. 291
Stars	p. 291
Constellations	p. 295
Seeing Double	p. 297
Nebulae	p. 299
Comets	p. 301
A Few Final Words	p. 303
Remember These Tips	p. 303
Next Steps	p. 304
Appendix	p. 307
Glossary	p. 313
Index	p. 335
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