Lessons from the Masters Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gendler, Robert. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series, 179
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer vision.; Astronomy.; Photography, artistic.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Photography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7834-8

There are currently thousands of amateur astronomers around the world engaged in astrophotography at increasingly sophisticated levels. Their ranks far outnumber professional astronomers doing the same and their contributions both technically and artistically are the dominant drivers of progress in...

Table of Contents:

• Theory of Astronomical Imaging
• Bringing Out Small Scale Structure
• Color Amplification
• Wide-field Constellation Imaging and Bringing Out Faint Large Scale Structure
• Narrowband Imaging
• Wide-field Imaging  Strategies for Processing Light Contaminated Data
• High Resolution Planetary and Lunar Imaging
• Deep-Sky Imaging Workflow 1
• Deep-Sky Imaging  Workflow 2
• Nightscape Imaging
• Deep-Sky Imaging  Workflow 3
• Eclipse Imaging and Processing of the Solar Corona
• Solar Imaging
• Aesthetics and Composition in Deep Sky Imaging
• �High Dynamic Range Processing
• Cosmetics: Noise Reduction and Blemish Repair
• Hybrid Imaging. �.