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Publisher: Focal Press; 1 edition (May 1, 2015)
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After beginning this (expensive) hobby this past winter, I found it painful to work my way through all the details. Despite the many forums available, there is, in my opinion, very little guidance that is structured. To make matters worse, and quite frustrating (and not just for "newbies") there is a plethora of very poorly written manuals by telescope, mount, and other accessory vendors. You would think that after spending a couple thousand bucks, you'd be able to read a decent manual. The forum sites are full of queries and topics because of this sore lack of useful structured introductory manual information.But if you get the bug, there's no going back and you just learn to deal with the very disorganized information you find. There is ultimately no better teacher than experience (i.e. trial and error). Hopefully you won't break anything along the way! My information breakthrough for me came on visiting Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. The biggest treat was seeing Orion's sword -- the clearest I've ever seen including nebulosity directly without any scope-- but they also carry an excellent selection of books for beginner thru advanced astronomers. I first came upon the Firefly series there. Highly recommended for Newbies! Finally- structured direction including learning the night sky!The "best" astrophotography books out there include MAKING EVERY PHOTON COUNT (Steve Richards), Allan Hall's LONG EXPOSURE ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY, and ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY (Thierry Legault). The COMPLETE GUIDE TO STARGAZING by Robin Scagell (and the smaller Firefly binocular and telescope series are perfect for commuting) is a more general encyclopedic overview of astronomy that's well illustrated and written. The available books are not ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY for dummies books. All of them can be quite dense, even when covering topics in a general sense. They all give a necessary overview that is indispensable, and more fruitful than scattered forum bites for me. Legault's book is the outstanding technical primer but doesn't really cover image processing specifics and the others which do deal mainly with PC ASCOM, the powerful Maxim DL software package, and Photoshop when they venture into processing specifics. The vendor Starizona has a series of online tutorials on image processing which are Photoshop oriented which I found quite informative.I think Chris Woodhouse's new entry is the most modern entry. He covers hardware and accessories as well if not better than the others, and has included an entire section on Image Processing that, unlike previous books, focuses on PixInsight. Very little structured PixInsight teaching material is available despite the many video tutorials that can be found online. There's a dedicated Patrick Moore series volume due out by Warren Keller. Ultimately there are two groups it seems, the "haters" and the "lovers". The best online tutorial resource is Kayron Mercieca's Light Vortex Astronomy as well as the PixInsight website material (ADDENDUM: I forgot to mention Harry's ASTROSHED!). The PixInsight material in this volume is the best available right now in book form, and frankly sets the standard. It places the wealth of video online tutorial material I've gone through in context.The editing quibbles mentioned in a separate post are not horrible and I believe this book will only get better on future editions.Kudos to Mr Woodhouse and thanks for sharing!
This is a very good book which I would characterize as a survey aimed at the advanced level. In a nutshell, it is an Astrophotography book for those who already are accomplished astrophotographers! The author is well versed in advanced topics such as plate solving, remote control of the telescope, PixInsight post processing software, and the modeling characteristics of high end mounts such as Software Bisque’s Paramount and 10Micron’s GM1000 HPS.The content of the book is augmented by useful tables and charts. Early on there is an Astronomy Primer, and the nice aspect of it is that it is written from the perspective of astrophotography. The heart of the author is clearly with the deep sky, however. Imaging of planets does not seem to hold his interest, but for completeness, he does include an example of imaging Jupiter among the seven worked out “First Light Assignments†at the end of the book. However, the word planet does not even appear in the book’s index. The few sentences describing planetary imaging in the book are also covered in the aforementioned Jupiter First Light Assignment. Even a picture, Figure 28 on page 110, is duplicated in the Jupiter assignment (and larger to boot) as Figure 2 on page 244. By the way, this is not the only figure that is duplicated in the book. The FocusMax dialog box screen shot, Figure 10 on page 47, is also shown as Figure 2 on page 127.Nits aside, I learned a lot from this book. There is a great amount of useful information on all aspects of astrophotography, from mounts, to optics, to cameras (both DSLRs and CCDs), filters, focusers, field flatteners, mount calibration, autoguiding, control software, and of course, post processing software and techniques.However, no book is going to turn you into an accomplished astrophotographer, just as no book will transform you into a competent pilot or surgeon. It takes practice. And although there is an extensive table in the Appendixes on Diagnostics and Problem Solving, you are probably going to have to follow the path the author took to become accomplished in the field - practice, and go to the forums to get help.It is a very expensive book. The hardcover version costs close to $150, and the paperback version, $50. Yet some of the charts, pictures and tables are printed small and therefore hard to read. On the other hand, the physical execution is excellent. The quality of the materials, the printing and the images, at least in the hardcover edition (I have not seen the soft cover edition), is excellent. The Kindle edition is just as nice (some people complain that other books do not fare well when brought over to Kindle). The only disappointment is that there is no way to enlarge the too small figures or tables even on a large 27 inch Macintosh monitor. This is not an issue with Kindle - as I mentioned earlier, these figures and tables are also too small in the print edition.I deducted one star from my rating because of the number of editing issues in the book. Given the quality of content and execution, and the price point, I had hoped the writing would also be top notch. Perhaps the author should have availed himself of an Editor. Maybe it is churlish of me to criticize typos, but they do distract from the reading of the book. I will not list every instance of a typo, but in just a few pages I found the following (hard cover and Kindle editions):Page 93: “,like DeeepSkyStacker that calibrates, aligns and stack exposures.â€(should be “,like DeeepSkyStacker that calibrates, aligns and stacks exposures.â€)Page 93: “One reason is that many editing functions are limited to 16-bit processing and the initial severe manipulations required in astrophotography are more effective in a 32 bit.â€(perhaps the sentence should end “are more effective in 32 bits.â€)Page 95: A fork-mounted telescope needs to be accurately leveled and aligned with true north.(not true for all fork mounted telescopes - this is a quote from the Celestron CPC manual: “Remember SkyAlign does not care where the optical tube is pointed at the beginning of the alignment. So to make the alignment process even faster it is acceptable to move the telescope to the first alignment star manually by loosening both clutches.†All current Celestron fork-mounted telescopes use the SkyAlign procedure, so none of them need to be aligned to true north)Page 96: “Some use a method that compare the position of two or …â€(should be compares.)Page 100: “Rotate the dovetail plate so that it horizontal and open up the jaws,â€(should be “Rotate the dovetail plate so that it is horizontal and open up the jaws,â€I checked the book’s Errata at [...] on March 31, 2016, the date I wrote this review. The Errata page was blank.In summary, this is an excellent but advanced book, and you should probably not let yourself get too annoyed by the lack of editing.If you are not quite ready to dive into the deep end of the pool, you could consider “Astrophotography†by Thierry Legault, and “The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer†by Charles Bracken. Both are available on Amazon, and the first one is also available on Kindle. Both are excellent - you can read the reviews. I will just mention that “Astrophotography†starts out with a simple chapter of photographing the sky without a telescope, and “The Deep-Sky Imaging Primer†does not cover planetary photography; its subject matter is, as the title implies, deep sky objects.
I'm very impressed with this book. I've read about a third of it so far. It is pleasant to read and is easily understood, goes into enough depth that I find it useful even after 2 years of astrophotography.
Good information! It augmented and affirmed what I was filtering out from many online sources ... too bad I didn't start with this book! I wish there was more dedicated coverage of solar system imaging (i.e. planets, moon, sun). It wasn't that it was absent, I just don't feel there was as much attention as DSO, and about the significant differences in the equipment and processes between the two.
Gives a great look at the overall process and points out the pitfalls. It provides some great resolutions to problems you wouldn't think are problems but are. Defines some of the terminology usually gained thru tribal knowledge. Written by an engineer in plain language that is easy to understand. This is a great addition to you PixInsight library.
Very good book, not for the beginner I think, need some physics background, but really like the suggestions in the book
Read it once cover to cover, now going through it again in detail.
One of the best books I've seen on astrophotography. Full of real world examples and advice. If this book was available when I started into astrophotography it would have saved me a lot of time and money. And Chris has obviously "been there". He works through problems that he has had with equipment and software. A real keeper and a good book to have next to your telescope.One minor quibble, the editing could have been tighter.
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