Over the last 15 years or so there has been a huge increase in the popularity of astrophotography with the advent of digital SLR cameras and CCD imagers. These have enabled astronomers to take many images and; indeed; check images as they scan the skies. Processing techniques using computer software have also made lsquo;developingrsquo; these images more accessible to those of us who are lsquo;chemically challenged!rsquo; And letrsquo;s face it ndash; some of the pictures you see these days in magazines; books; and on popular web forums are; frankly; amazing! So; why bother looking through the eyepiece you ask? Well; for one thing; setting up the equipment is quicker. You just take your lsquo;scope out of the garage or; if yoursquo;re lucky enough to own one; open the roof of your observatory; align the lsquo;scope and off you go. If you have an equatorial mount; yoursquo;ll still need to roughly polar align; but this really takes only a few moments. The lsquo;imagerrsquo; would most likely need to spend more time setting up. This would include very accurate polar alignment (for equatorial mounts); then finding a guide star using his or her finder; checking the software is functioning properly; and c- tinuous monitoring to make sure the alignment is absolutely precise throu- out the imaging run. That said; an imager with a snug lsquo;obsyrsquo; at the end of the garden will have a quicker time setting up; but then again so will the lsquo;visualrsquo; observer.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy PamelaEKIf you live in Altamont; NY this is an interesting book to add to your collection.