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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This is a much expanded and fully updated edition of the best-selling handbook Astrophotography for the Amateur. It provides a complete guide to taking pictures of the stars, galaxies, the moon, the sun, comets, meteors and eclipses, using equipment and materials readily available to the hobbyst.

In this new edition, the book has been completely revised and now includes new chapters on computer image processing and CCD imaging, greatly expanded advice on choosing cameras and telescopes, completely updated information about films, a much larger bibliography, and many new photographs (including 43 new colour plates and more than 140 new black and white images) by some of the world's best amateurs, demonstrating the latest equipment and techniques.

Astrophotography for the Amateur has become the standard handbook for all amateur astronomers. This expanded and updated edition provides an ideal introduction for beginnners and a complete handbook for advanced amateurs. It will also appeal to photography enthusiasts who can discover how to take spectacular images with only modest equipment.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Preface.

-Notes to the Reader.

-Symbols Used in Formulae.

-I. Simple Techniques.

1. Welcome to Astrophotography.
2. Photographing Stars Without a Telescope.
3. Comets, Meteors, Aurorae, and Space Dust.
4. The Moon.
5. Eclipses.

-II. Advanced Techniques.

6. Coupling Cameras to Telescopes.
7. The Solar System.
8. Deep-Sky Photography.

-III. Photographic Technology.

10. Film.
11. Developing, Printing, and Photographic Enhancement.

-IV. Digital Imaging.

12. Computer Image Enhancement.
13. CCD Imaging.

-Appendices.

A. Exposure Tables.
B. Mathematical Analysis of Polar-Axis Misalignment.
C. Plans for an Electronic Drive Corrector.
D. Film Data.
E. Photographic Filters.
F. Organizations and Resources.

-Bibliography.

-Index.

-Colour Plates.