Best Astrophotography Books
Digital SLR Astrophotography
Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos
Astrophotography for the Amateur
A Guide to Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras
The 100 Best Astrophotography Targets: A Monthly Guide for CCD Imaging with Amateur Telescopes
Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
Practical Astrophotography
How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
Heavenly Bodies: The Photographer's Guide to Astrophotography
Top 10
1. Digital SLR Astrophotography
In the last few years, digital SLR cameras have taken the astrophotography world by storm. It is now easier to photograph the stars than ever before! They are compact and portable, flexible to adapt with different lenses and for telescope use, and above all DSLR cameras are easy and enjoyable to use. In this concise guide, experienced astrophotography expert Michael Covington outlines the simple, enduring basics that will enable you to get started, and…»
2. Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos
At first glance, the challenge of astrophotography may appear daunting. But not only are spectacular results possible, they are easy to learn with the step-by-step instructions provided in Stephan Seip's Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos. Today, amateurs can produce images that only twenty years ago a large professional observatory would have been proud of; and this book shows you how. Learn how to: Set up your camera for optimum…»
3. Astrophotography for the Amateur
With this extraordinary handbook, you, too, can frame the stars and have them hanging on your livingroom walls. Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to taking pictures of stars, galaxies, the Moon, the Sun, comets, meteors and eclipses, using equipment and materials readily available to the hobbyist. Based on suggestions from readers of the first edition, the new edition has been completely updated and expanded to include new chapters…»
4. A Guide to Astrophotography with Digital SLR Cameras
This book on CD-ROM is a practical guide to astrophotography with digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. It explains how digital cameras work and everything you need to know about how to take astrophotos with them. It also tells you how to process the images after you have shot them, with step-by-step directions that will produce beautiful results. With this book you will discover how easy it is to shoot the Sun, Moon, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and…»
5. The 100 Best Astrophotography Targets: A Monthly Guide for CCD Imaging with Amateur Telescopes
Any amateur astronomer who is interested in astrophotography, particularly if just getting started, needs to know what objects are best for imaging in each month of the year. These are not necessarily the same objects that are the most spectacular or intriguing visually. The camera reveals different things and has different requirements. What objects in the sky tonight are large enough, bright enough, and high enough to be photographed? This book reveals,…»
6. Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software
This book is based around the authorâÄôs beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects. The images were used as the basis of a public exhibition held at the University of Southampton (Summer 2006), attended by the press, local radio and TV interviewers as well as the public. The book describes how similar images can be created by amateur astronomers, using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent…»
7. Practical Astrophotography
Almost all amateur astronomers want to take photographs of the night sky. For all but the simplest star-trail pictures, this involves machinery - a telescope drive - to track the stars, essential to compensate for the rotation of the earth. The task becomes even more complicated when photographing very small or very faint objects that require high magnification or very long exposure times. Amateurs have many options according to their requirements,…»
8. How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with Your Digital Camera
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 âÄì the kind you use on holiday âÄì are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects, notably the Moon and major planets…»
9. Heavenly Bodies: The Photographer's Guide to Astrophotography
Detailing the photographic equipment and astronomical instruments needed to capture celestial images, this guide shows how astrophotography can be accessible to all photographers. Included is a detailed introduction to basic astronomy with information on mapping the sky, locating celestial bodies, and planning an expedition to photograph astronomical phenomena. Photographers learn how to determine the color sensitivity of various films and achieve the best…»