The Astrophotography Manual: A Practical and Scientific Approach to Deep Sky Imaging

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I must begin with strengths of the book and the Author.Chris Woodhouse is exceptionally learned, and knows the subject and the pitfalls of astrophotography in great depth.He has done an exceptional job of putting all his knowledge and learnings in this manual with great details.Now starts the problem with so many details, which have taken up 432 pages of paper, of size bigger than A-4 and font size of just about 8 mm in height.The book Is so written, that I have already spent numerous hours, and yet, I can't find a quick guide to take my first simple astrograph.As a learner, and already quite experienced about Wild photography, I joined some amazing Astrophotography groups on FB, which were very useful in getting me started, and getting the feel. Most good astrogrphers, on FB also share details of their shot, and the way, they have processed the image.With the available knowledge, on FB and Internet, I could take some nice stacked images of moon, and now geared up for Andromeda galaxy.Now probably, because of too detailed explanations, the publisher made the font size very very small, just to maintain the size of this book under 3 pounds. Fonts are so small and thin that this is the first book of my life, for which I have to read use reading lens. I never have to do the same with Newspaper..This book is probably ok for intermediate level Astrophotographers, who some time want to fill in the knowledge gap.I would never recommend this to a new comer, for whom, there are numerous articles, videos and FB group posts are available to get started. One also gets to know the latest in equipment and software to process images, through experts on FB.I am sorry, if someone is hurt about the review. Probably, I have less patience to read so much before getting in to the act.

Este livro é um achado. Os detalhes técnicos, as descrições dos equipamentos, os ensinamentos profundos na arte da astrofotografia é explicado a exaustão e em detalhes surpreendentes. Um curso aqui no Brasil que custa caro não chega aos pés da riqueza deste livro. Parece que você tem um especialista a seu alcance. Vale cada centavo. É um livro de estudo, onde deve-se ler várias vezes cada parágrafo conforme sua necessidade. Excelente. Para nós brasileiros, que precisam escrever algo para esta área é uma inspiração de qualidade superior.

Tons of useful information for someone like me who is just starting out.

Muy bien explicado. Se necesitan conocimientos previos de astrofotografía. Es para avanzados

Ottimo manuale: segue il processo da inizio alla fine. Spiega in dettaglio come fare una ripresa astro fotografica dall'inseguimento, il telescopio, la camera, l'elaborazione. Alcuni aspetti sono legati allo specifico workflow dell'autore e dal periodo storico in cui è stato scritto (aggiornato) per cui non troverete ad esempio cenno a Stellarmate/Ekos, alle camere piu'recenti. resta un ottimo punto di partenza per avere le basi di come fare una ripresa astro fotografica

We bought it as a gift but returned it because Amazon and packaging books is not the best combination. The book itself is very nice though. We bought it somewhere else and the receiving person was very happy!