num_pages: 242
description: This book de-mystifies the jargon of webcams and computer processing, and provides detailed hints and tips for imaging the Sun, Moon and planets with a webcam. It demonstrates how inexpensive tools are revolutionizing imaging in amateur astronomy. Anyone with a modest telescope and a webcam can now obtain jaw-dropping lunar and planetary images to rival those taken with mid-range astronomical CCD cameras costing thousands of dollars. A glance through the images in this book shows just what spectacular results can be achieved by using a webcam with your telescope! Your scientific results will be sought by professional astronomers.
language: English
title: Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide
titlecomplete: Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide (The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Springer