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Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing
There are currently thousands of amateur astronomers around the world engaged in astrophotography at increasingly sophisticated levels. Their ranks far outnumber professional astronomers doing the same and their contributions both technically and artistically are the dominant drivers of progress in the field today. This book is a unique collaboration of individuals, all world-renowned in their particular area, and covers in detail each of the major sub-disciplines of astrophotography. This approach offers the reader the greatest opportunity to learn the most current information and the latest techniques directly from the foremost innovators in the field today.
The book as a whole covers all types of astronomical image processing, including processing of eclipses and solar phenomena, extracting detail from deep-sky, planetary, and widefield images, and offers solutions to some of the most challenging and vexing problems in astronomical image processing.
Table of Contents:
- Stan Moore: Theory of Astronomical Imaging
- Ken Crawford: High Dynamic Range Processing
- Jay GaBany: Color amplification
- Ken Crawford: Bringing out Small Scale Details
- Rogelio Bernal Andreo: Bringing out faint large Scale Structure
- Don Goldman: Narrowband Imaging
- Steve Cannistra: Widefield Imaging: Strategies for Processing Light Contaminated Data
- Tony Hallas: Noise Reduction Techniques
- Adam Block: Deep Sky Imaging: Workflow 1
- Johannes Schedler: Deep Sky Imaging:Workflow 2
- Steve Mazlin: Deep Sky Imaging:Workflow 3
- Damian Peach: High Resolution Lunar and Planetary Imaging
- Babak A.Tafreshi: Nightscape Imaging
- Fred Espenak: Eclipse Imaging and processing of the Solar Corona
- Alan Friedman: Solar Imaging
- Robert Gendler: Aesthetics and Composition in Deep Sky Imaging
- Robert Gendler: Hybrid Imaging
A large number of quality illustrations help explain the critical concepts and complex techniques the modern astrophotographer will need to achieve the highest level of quality in their astronomical images.
