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Contents

Introduction


Photography - creative & technical

revised 14 Dec 10

A question of distance

revised 16 May 10

Photography


Camera techniques

revised 6 May 10

Digital image structure

revised 18 Oct 07

A few of my photos

revised 30 Jan 11

Standard image file formats

revised 16 Nov 11

Pinhole photography

revised 8 May 07

Astrophotography


Star photography - trails or no trails

revised 29 Oct 11

Astrophotography with a simple compact camera

revised 25 Mar 11

Camera following the stars - stacking

revised 31 Mar 11

Photography through the telescope

revised 26 Mar 11

Exposure settings for astrophotography

revised 30 Mar 11

Defects, darks & flats

revised 26 Mar 11

Photographing the moon

revised 9 Oct 11

Astrophotographic observations


My latest & best astrophotographs

revised 25 Jan 12

Whole-sky photos - the Milky Way

revised 10 Oct 11

Constellations

revised 25 Oct 11

Deep sky: star clusters, nebulae & galaxies

revised 11 Oct 11

Novae & supernovae

revised 10 Oct 11

Solar System 1: Sun, Moon & major planets

revised 9 Oct 11

Solar System 2: comets, meteors & minor planets

new 9 Oct 11

Some mysteries

new 11 Dec 09

My telescope & camera


Resolution, field of view, etc

revised 31 Mar 11

Hints & tips for using a SkyWatcher telescope

revised 22 Mar 11

My usual astrophotographic process

new 27 Dec 10

Using GRIP


Introduction to GRIP

revised 21 Nov 11

Download GRIP

revised 1 Jan 12

What's new in GRIP

revised 1 Jan 12

GRIP's main menu

revised 2 Dec 09

Plotting realistic star charts

revised 9 Dec 09

The batch menu

revised 16 Jan 10

Processing steps for astrophotographs

revised 16 Jan 10

Table of open images

revised 20 Aug 09

The combination menu

revised 20 Aug 09

Menus available on each image window

revised 13 Oct 09

The image menu

revised 20 Aug 09

The blob menu

revised 15 Jan 10

The measurement menu

revised 20 Aug 09

The geometry menu

revised 20 Aug 09

The levels menu

revised 19 Nov 09

The convolutions menu

revised 27 Jul 09

The image help menu


The measurement table menus


Troubleshooting GRIP

revised 20 Oct 10

How to...


How to subtract photos with GRIP

new 9 Apr 07

How to open RAW images in GRIP

revised 10 Apr 07

How to recombine colour channels with GRIP

new 9 Apr 07

How to measure the diameter of a pinhole

new 10 Apr 07

How to estimate unknown magnitudes of stars

revised 15 Feb 10

Background correction


Panoramas & overlapping photos


Plotting positions of solar system objects

new 3 Jan 08

Programming with GRIP


Download source code and API

revised 1 Jan 12

What is Java?

revised 14 Dec 11

Images in Java

revised 23 Nov 11

ImFrame class structure

revised 22 Nov 11

Pixel interpolation

revised 24 Nov 11

Reading & writing images in Java

revised 23 Nov 11

TIFF: little- or big-endian?

revised 23 Nov 11

Image metadata

revised 3 Feb 08

Blob detection and measurement

new 23 Nov 11

Minimal GRIP application

new 23 Nov 11

Odds & ends


The Mandelbrot curve

new 25 Nov 07

How these pages were made

revised 27 Feb 10

Some links

revised 27 Jun 11

The brightest 3,690 stars

revised 27 Feb 10