Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide

Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2006
Springer London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84628-197-6 (ISBN)

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Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide - Martin Mobberley
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This book de-mystifies 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 technologies are revolutionizing imaging
In the last few years, cheap webcams have revolutionized amateur astronomy by providing a very inexpensive alternative to purpose-made astronomical CCD cameras, which use refrigerated imaging chips and are thus extremely expensive. Webcams are capable of more advanced work than 'normal' digital cameras because their simple construction makes it easy to remove the webcam's lens, allowing it to be interfaced directly to a telescope. Using a webcam is not difficult but most amateur astronomers who have tried to do this do not achieve the finest results, despite the webcam's potential. There are numerous imaging and image processing tricks and techniques, and all of them are needed to get the best results.


Along with webcam technology has come simple-to-use image processing and enhancement using a PC: the most powerful technique is, 'stacking' in which the best images (out of hundreds) are selected and summed automatically to provide startlingly good results.


"Lunar and Planetary Webcam User’s Guide" de-mystifies the jargon of webcams and computer processing, and provides detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon and planets with a webcam. He looks at each observing target separately, describing and explaining all specialised techniques in context.


Glance through the images in this book to see just how much you can – easily – achieve by using a webcam with your telescope!

The Solar System: A Brief Introduction.- Webcams, Plus a “Quick Start” Guide.- High-Resolution Essentials.- Planetary Imagers Worldwide.- Have Webcam, Will Travel.- Planetary Webcams and Their Alternatives.- A Beginner’s Guide to Using a Webcam.- Detailed Image Processing, Colors and LRGB.- Advanced Stacking of Rippling AVI Frames.- Imaging the Moon.- Imaging Mercury and Venus.- Imaging Mars.- Imaging Jupiter.- Imaging Saturn.- Imaging Uranus and Neptune.- Imaging the Sun.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.5.2006
Reihe/Serie The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
Zusatzinfo 20 Illustrations, color; 60 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 230 p. 80 illus., 20 illus. in color.
Verlagsort England
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
Schlagworte Guide • Lunar • Mobberley
ISBN-10 1-84628-197-0 / 1846281970
ISBN-13 978-1-84628-197-6 / 9781846281976
Zustand Neuware
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