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Springer Observing The Sun With Coronado™ Telescopes by Philip Pugh
For this ground-breaking book, Philip Pugh has assembled a team of contributors who show just how much solar observation work can be accomplished with Coronado telescopes, and explain how to get the best from these marvelous instruments. The book shows that Solar prominences, filaments, flares, sunspots, plage and active regions are all visible and can be imaged to produce spectacular solar photographs. Acknowledgements 1. The myriad advantages of image processing (introduction) 2. Choosing a camera 3. Acquiring images (and choosing software) 4. Displaying images 5. Image reduction Flat fields Dark subtraction Image transformations Image stacking Image mosaicing Image scaling and histograms Background gradients 6. Image enhancement Image sharpening Image unsharp masking Image deconvolution 7. Handling colour images Achieving colour balance CMY or RGB? Other problems 8. Handling image sequences and webcams Image acquisition Image quality techniques Automated image processing 9. What is best for... Planets Deep Sky Widefield imaging 10. The pitfalls 11. Postscript Notes on image contributors Appendices Software Hardware + Software Suppliers References Further reading Index