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The Moon: A Beginner’s Guide to Lunar Features and Photography

The Moon: A Beginner’s Guide to Lunar Features and Photography

A practical guide aimed at beginners interested in learning about the Moon and how to image our closest satellite neighbor. The book contains the complete photographic process including equipment, settings, capture techniques, stacking and image processing, each of which is vitally important to producing a good image. The information is laid out in a visual and easy-to-understand format so that even the dark art of image processing will not seem quite so daunting. There are many high-quality color photos of the Moon to help you learn about different lunar features and a list of 100 lunar targets identified as a challenge for you to find. All the targets have been captured by the author who provides a brief description of each feature and where it is located on the lunar surface. You will be surprised to discover the fine level of lunar detail which you can see from your back garden and once you start imaging, you will realize there is more to the Moon than meets the eye.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Imaging the Moon

Chapter 2. DSLR Lunar Photography

Chapter 3. Mobile Phone Lunar Photography

Chapter 4. Sensors and Image Resolution

Chapter 5. Capturing Images Using a High Frame Rate Camera

Chapter 6. Capturing the Video Using Sharpcap

Chapter 7. Stacking

Chapter 8. Image Processing Using Photoshop

Chapter 9. Creating Composite Images Using Image Composite Editor (ICE)

Chapter 10. Lunar Features

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