The New Amateur Astronomer
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Author(s): M. Mobberley
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1852336633
Format: softback
229pp
Price: £24.50, $34.95, €39.95 ex vat.
Review Date: 05 November 2004
Review: The New Amateur Astronomer reflects the change in technology that has taken place in the last ten years. Astronomers can now observe the skies on a PC monitor, using a powerful remote-control telescope and charge-couple device (CCD) camera. Within minutes of capturing an image, it can be emailed to fellow observers worldwide or a snapshot CCD images can be taken. In this book the author explains the available equipment: telescopes; mountings; digicams; CCD cameras; and image-processing software. He then shows the possibilities that are open to amateurs and introduces some of them, their equipment, and their results.