Lunar and Planetary Webcam User's Guide

Автор: Martin Mobberley
Издательство: Springer-Verlag London Limited
Год: 2006
Страниц: 231
Размер: 5,73 МБ

In the last few years, cheap webcams have revolutionized amateur astronomy by providing a very inexpensive alternative to purpose-made astronomical CCD cameras, which use refrigerated imaging chips and are thus extremely expensive. Webcams are capable of more advanced work than ‘normal’ digital cameras because their simple construction makes it easy to remove the webcam’s lens, allowing it to be interfaced directly to a telescope. Using a webcam is not difficult but most amateur astronomers who have tried to do this do not achieve the finest results, despite the webcam’s potential. There are numerous imaging and image processing tricks and techniques, and all of them are needed to get the best results.