Overview
- Explains how modern techniques can be used to best effect for visual astronomy
- Looks at the use of real-time image enhancement systems, such as image intensifiers
- Features a selective list of deep-sky objects to view from dark sites, and shows what to expect
- Essential for all amateur astronomers who want to get the most enjoyment from visual deep-sky observing!
Part of the book series: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series (PATRICKMOORE)
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About this book
Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies – within reach of amateur astronomers. And it isn’t even necessary to image many of these deep-sky objects in order to see them; they are within reach of visual observers using modern techniques and enhancement technology.
The first requirement is truly dark skies; if you are observing from a light-polluted environment you need Tony Cooke’s book, Visual Astronomy in the Suburbs. Given a site with clear, dark night skies everything else follows… this book will provide the reader with everything he needs to know about what to observe, and using some of today’s state-of-the-art technique and commercial equipment, how to get superb views of faint and distant astronomical objects.
Reviews
Cooke is full of great ideas and insight relevant to visual observers who are keen to use a bit of technology in support of their hobby / obsession, for observers at all locations. Highly recommended for visual observers who want to push their eyeball observing to the limit.
--Roger Feasey, in the Journal of the Auckland Astronomical Society
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies
Book Subtitle: A New Approach to Observing Deep Space
Authors: Antony Cooke
Series Title: The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-149-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-901-2Published: 17 June 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-149-5Published: 16 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1431-9756
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6562
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 180
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Astronomy, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques