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How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
Tony Buick
Springer
2006
Softcover 274 p., 312 illus. ISBN 185233990X
£19.00
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Since the advent of astronomical CCD imaging it has been possible for amateurs to produce images
of a quality that was attainable only by universities and professional observatories just a decade ago.
However, astronomical CCD cameras are still very expensive, and technology has now progressed so
that digital cameras - the kind you use on holiday - are more than capable of photographing the brighter
astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets.
Tony Buick has worked for two years on the techniques involved, and has written this illustrated step-by-step
manual for anyone who has a telescope (of any size) and a digital camera. 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.
Of interest to amateur astronomers.
Contents
Foreword by Sir Patrick Moore
Preface
- Introduction
- Equipment
- The Magic Ingredient
- Method
- The Universe and You
- Targets
- Our Moon
- The Moon - First Glance
- Regions of the Moon
- Moon Features and Techniques
- Lunar Events
- Solar System Moons
- The Planets
- The Sun
- Transits
€and What Else?
- Conclusion
- Appendices
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