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This book is designed as an introduction to the wonderful field of amateur astrophotography. Most amateurs enter this field after visually observing and wanting to produce images that they can keep and share as they explore the amazing universe that we find ourselves inhabiting. This may be done for purely aesthetic reasons as the objects that we may take images of have a striking beauty all of their own. It may also be that the images are being taken in order to use them in an area of study; whilst the basics of taking these images are similar there are subtle differences. This book is aimed getting you to a level of astrophotography where you are knowledgeable enough to take the type of images that you are interested in. For lots of people this will actually be a mixture of both, images that they can print and frame or use on a website and images that they will use in some area of study.
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O’Brien, M. (2023). Introduction. In: A Deep Sky Astrophotography Primer. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15762-2_1
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