Lunar And Planetary Webcam User's Guide (Paperback)

Webcam Technology The Solar System - a brief guide High-resolution basics - Telescope choices and Collimation The World's leading amateur planetary imagers and their results Webcam choices - Webcams on the market from cheap to expensive Video cameras - an alternative for brighter objects A beginner's guide to using a webcam and Registax/K3 CCD Tools software Understanding Colour: RGB, LRGB, noise and dynamic range Imaging the Moon - Lunar Techniques plus a concise guide to some of the best lunar features taken with webcams. Webcam Imaging Imaging Mercury & Venus (emphasis on UV & IR Venus work) Imaging Mars (includes the planet's characteristics, dust storms and using filters) Imaging Jupiter (as well as imaging techniques...lots of information about its weather patterns etc and recent spots, storms, shadow transits etc...etc.....) Imaging Saturn (plus Saturn's Great White Spots etc...edge-on ring appearances...) Imaging Uranus & Neptune (the CCD/webcam era now makes this possible!!) Imaging the Sun (the usual cautionary advice....) Visual techniques (in case the reader still wants to look though the eyepiece!)