Astrophotography

Pro: I’m loving the book so far and looking forward to dipping my toe into amateur astrophotographyCon: This new book arrived with a totally heinous crease across the spine, which bummed me out.

im new into this hobby, this is a great book that I will use years from now.

Masterful book, from one of astrophotography's masters.Let's be honest - the man is a legend in the field of high-resolution astrophotography of transient phenomena. But he knows so much more than just that narrow field. And he expresses it all so well and so clearly in a language which isn't even his native one!Every time I meet or listen to Thierry, he just blows me away. This book contains so much of his knowledge and distilled experience, it would be of value at any price. My personal expertise is in planetary photography - that is not a strength of this book. But I bought it for all the OTHER areas where I am not strong. Eliminate your weaknesses, just like in any sport, hobby or competitive industry. And this book helps you do just that.It's both a readable book, cover-to-cover, and a reference book, where you refer back to specific chapters from time to time as you hone your skills. And it has a prominent place in the pile of books on my nightstand!

This book is full of detail, some over my needs. Information on equipment is a bit dated, which is to be expected at these times when the choices for photographic gear is rapidly changing. A useful book for digging deep into many related topics. Recommending for these readers.

This book far exceeded what I thought it would. It covers astrophotography without a telescope and alsocovers using a telescope. Pictures throughout the book.I have many articles on this subject but this book coversall one would want to know and is always available for review. Now I am waiting for winter to use what I havelearned from the book. In 1975 I tried using a film camera with a telescope now one has the DSLR camera whichsaves time in waiting to develop the film. You now can see what was taken through the telescope or camera. Even thoughtelescopes today are computer controlled this book will help in setting up to photograph the sky.What I dislike not manyclear nights to see the stars.

Besides being a great technical reference, this book is a work of art. Well organized, top-notch materials, and wonderful pictures. I'm just getting started in AP, so it's somewhat advanced for me, but Legault's writing style is very clear and organized, as one would expect from an engineer.I initially disliked his decision to minimize the software and processing side of things, but he actually does a decent job covering it to at least give the reader a taste of what can be/needs to be done. Frankly, for AP processing help, Youtube videos are a better and more up-to-date source of knowledge.I would recommend buying the book and not the E-book, if not for the beauty of it, for the ability to go back and forth to review technical information. I think it just works better for a physical book.

This is a very beautiful book, written by a renowned astrophotography expert--he's the one who apparently first captured photos of the ISS transiting the Sun. However, I was disappointed that the information is presented in a somewhat disorganized fashion. It does describe the basics of astrophotography, and gets into some severe technical detail about camera selection, exposures, etc , but I don't think it would serve as a very good book for beginners.

A good source of information if you are just starting or have been doing astrophotography for some time.

A great book for the beginner and expert alike. One for the coffee table too!

Ótimo livro com muito conteúdo para o iniciante e para os iniciados. O autor nitidamente tem experiência no assunto e, de forma didática, passa seu conhecimento para o leitor. Obviamente, o livro sozinho não produz boas astrofotografias. É necessária muita prática e perseverança, além do equipamento adequado, porém habilita o interessado a iniciar e prosseguir na atividade com uma boa referência ao seu lado. A divisão em capítulos por tema e técnica de astrofotografia é bem interessante: você pode ler o volume todo ou ir direto ao capítulo que te interessa sem perda nenhuma. Entretanto, estou lendo o livro todo pois é bem fluido para ler e em todas as páginas ocorrem muitas dicas que sempre podem ser aproveitadas nas mais diversas situações. Falando do livro em si, é muito bem feito, com material de ótima qualidade e impressão primorosa. O único ponto negativo é seu formato, mais quadrado e complicado de ler pelo número de paginas e peso do volume. É preciso estar em uma mesa para lê-lo sem destrui-lo. Mesmo assim , mantenho a avaliação como 5 estrelas. Vale a pena comprar.

最近の天体写真の入門書としてデジタル一眼レフからWEB系ビデオカメラによる月や惑星処理、冷却CCDの処理まで初心者にもわかりやすい図表や実例を多く取り入れてまとめた本としてはよく書かれています。すでにわかっている方にはちょっと物足りない印象の本かも知れません。

Um grande livro, com dicas imperdiveis para quer ser um astrofotógrafo. Tanto para quem se satisfaz apenas com um câmera fotográfica como para aqueles que usam telescópios.

This is a good modern introductory book on astrophotography with an emphasis on Theirry's speciality, planetary imaging. In covering basic advice aimed at the beginner, it glosses over practical detail. There is much less useful advice on focusing, exposure, image processing or autoguiding.The claim on Page 31 that suggests that using a Bayer array is a "major drawback"... since a color sensor collects a quarter of the light of monochrome one and as a consequence, monochrome sensors are highly prized, is not right The reason deep sky astrophotographers use monochrome sensors is because they want to tune the filtration to exclude light pollution, select narrowband wavelengths or, the IR blocking filter sandwiched with the Bayer array potentially attenuates deep red wavelengths. For any color imaging, a monochrome sensor is set behind a color filter and in any given time, the number of photons hitting the sensor will be broadly equivalent to a bayer array, depending on the color of the object. Even with an extensively red target, one would not only take images behind a red filter but green and blue too, of equivalent time, to ensure color balance and a good even noise level. The green and blue filter exposures would be largely irrelevant for the red nebulosity and be extremely inefficient.