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	• Handbook of CCD Astronomy (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers) Steve B. Howell Cambridge University Press, 2000 - 176 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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a very valuable book, entertaining too

For a graduate student who has not had an observational astronomy course, the process of self-teaching the essentials of CCD astronomy is not a smooth one. You really don't know what kind of things you have to worry about before going to a telescope!

Though this book does not cover comprehensively the topic of detection techniques in scientific contexts (too much for such a small book), it has an excellent, totally readable introduction to the basics of CCD detection in astronomy. The author obviously has been in the field for a long time, so his numerous anecdotes from his rich, past expericnes are entertaining as well as enlightening. It is such a short book but very satisfying, which is rare for a technical science book.

This book would make a perfect textbook or supplement reading for any decent undergraduate observational astronomy course. Highly recommended as the first reading for observers.

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An essential reference

Steve is the master of the art of CCD photometry. This is an essential book for professional astronomers and amateurs alike.

CCD Astronomy book condition

The book arrived in the condition stated. It took a little longer than I expected for it to arrive, but it did arrive in good condition.

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every thing about learning CCDs

I loved it,... i though me EVERY thing about CCDs,...how do they work...and how to understand the results....

This handbook constitutes a concise and accessible reference on all practical aspects of using Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs). Starting with the electronic workings of these modern marvels, Steven Howell discusses their basic characteristics and then gives methods and examples for determining their values. While the focus is on using CCDs in professional observational astronomy, advanced amateur astronomers, and researchers in physics, chemistry, medical imaging, and remote sensing will also benefit from the material. Tables of useful and hard-to-find data, and key practical equations round off the book's treatment.

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