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Astrophotography for the amateur /
First published in 1999, this much expanded and updated edition of the best-selling handbook Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to taking pictures of stars, galaxies, the Moon, the Sun, comets, meteors and eclipses, using equipment and materials readily available to the hobby...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes to the reader; Symbols used in formulae; I SIMPLE TECHNIQUES; 1 Welcome to astrophotography; 1.1 The challenge of astrophotography; 1.2 Choosing equipment; 1.3 Sharing your work with others; 1.4 Maintaining balance and enjoyment; 2 Photographing stars without a telescope; 2.1 Stars and trails; 2.2 BASIC TECHNIQUE 1: Photographing stars without a telescope; 2.3 How long can you expose?; 2.4 PRACTICAL NOTE: How to approach formulae; 2.5 Choice of camera and lens; 2.6 Slides versus prints; 2.7 PRACTICAL NOTE: Getting good color prints
- 2.8 Getting the most out of your film2.9 Keeping records; 2.10 PRACTICAL NOTE: Film and false economy; 2.11 Interpreting your pictures scientifically; 3 Comets, meteors, aurorae, and space dust; 3.1 Comets; 3.2 BASIC TECHNIQUE 2: Photographing a bright comet; 3.3 Meteors; 3.4 BASIC TECHNIQUE 3: Photographing a meteor shower; 3.5 Aurorae; 3.6 BASIC TECHNIQUE 4: Photographing the aurora borealis; 3.7 Zodiacal light, Gegenschein, and lunar libration clouds; 3.8 All-sky cameras; 4 The moon; 4.1 Lenses and image size; 4.2 Using a telephoto lens
- 4.3 BASIC TECHNIQUE 5: Photographing the moon through a telephoto lens4.4 Determining exposures; 4.5 PRACTICAL NOTE: What is a ""stop""?; 4.6 Afocal coupling to telescopes and binoculars; 4.7 BASIC TECHNIQUE 6: Photographing the moon (afocal method); 4.8 Films and processing; 5 Eclipses; 5.1 Lunar eclipses; 5.2 Lunar eclipse dates and times; 5.3 Lunar eclipse photography; 5.4 Videotaping a lunar eclipse; 5.5 BASIC TECHNIQUE 7: Photographing an eclipse of the moon; 5.6 Solar eclipses
- partial and annular; 5.7 Eclipse safety; 5.8 PRACTICAL NOTE: How eclipse eye injuries happen
- 5.9 BASIC TECHNIQUE 8: Viewing a solar eclipse by projection5.10 Safe solar filters; 5.11 Photographing partial solar eclipses; 5.12 BASIC TECHNIQUE 9: Photographing a partial solar eclipse; 5.13 Solar eclipses
- total; 5.14 Shadow bands and other phenomena; 5.15 BASIC TECHNIQUE 10: Photographing a total solar eclipse; 5.16 Session planning; 5.17 Videotaping solar eclipses; 5.18 The 1999 total eclipse in Europe; II ADVANCED TECHNIQUES; 6 Coupling cameras to telescopes; 6.1 Prime-focus astrophotography; 6.2 Telescope types and optical limitations; 6.3 Image size and field of view
- 6.4 Afocal coupling6.5 Positive projection; 6.6 PRACTICAL NOTE: Measuring s[sub(2)] for eyepiece projection; 6.7 Negative projection; 6.8 Compression (focal reducers); 6.9 Combinations of projection setups; 6.10 Diffraction-limited resolution; 6.11 The subtle art of focusing; 6.12 Camera viewfinders; 6.13 PRACTICAL NOTE: Does your SLR focus accurately?; 6.14 Aerial-image and crosshair focusing; 6.15 Knife-edge focusing; 6.16 How accurately must we focus?; 6.17 Focusing Schmidt-Cassegrains and Maksutovs; 7 The solar system; 7.1 Film or CCD?; 7.2 The challenge of high resolution; 7.3. Tracking