Making Beautiful Deep Sky Images : Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software Amateur astronomers using commercially available equipment have taken some beautiful and awe inspiring color photographs of deep sky objects. But how Professor Greg Parkers astronomical photographs are widely known for their excellence and a selection of them has recently been shown as a public exhibition in the UK. In Making Beautiful Deep Sky Images he provides a detailed account of how spectacular deep sky images can be taken by amateur astronomers using CCD cameras and how they can subsequently be processed and enhanced in the electronic darkroom for maximum beauty and impact. You dont even have to own a big telescope. A range of telescopes and equipment is considered in detail from Gregs 11 inch SCT down to lower cost instruments. Quite simply this is a how to do it book for people who want to make stunning astronomical pictures How did I start The Beginning and a Serious Health~Warning! Assembling your Imaging System Computational Considerations Data Acquisition and Image Processing A Permanent Setup First Light Choosing your Objects First Light your First Objects Hyperstar Imaging Wide Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor Basic Image Processing The Deep Sky Images Differentiating your Work Your Largest Resource Book Recommendations