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Contents

Introduction


Photography - creative & technical

revised 16 May 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

new 22 Feb 10

Standard image file formats


Pinhole photography

revised 8 May 07

Astrophotography


Star photography

revised 6 Feb 09

Camera piggy-back on a telescope

revised 6 Feb 09

Photography through the telescope

revised 6 Feb 09

Using a more robust equatorial mount

revised 31 Mar 10

Exposure settings for astrophotography

revised 24 Feb 10

Defective pixels

revised 6 Feb 09

Photographing the moon

revised 15 May 09

Plotting comet positions

new 3 Jan 08

The brightest stars

revised 27 Feb 10

Background correction


Panoramas & overlapping photos


Pixel interpolation


Astrophotographic observations


Some mysteries

new 11 Dec 09

New telescope - 254mm Newtonian

revised 5 Dec 09

First photos through the 10 inch telescope

new 18 Aug 09

Subsequent observations with the 10 inch (25 cm) telescope

revised 10 Apr 10

Hints & tips for using a SkyWatcher telescope

revised 24 Jan 10

The dolphin revisited

revised 23 Oct 09

Vesta

new 1 Apr 10

The eagle's new star

revised 15 Feb 10

Comet 17P/Holmes, 2007 - 8

revised 11 Jan 08

M42, the Great Orion nebula

revised 31 Mar 10

Perseid meteors, 12th August 2007

new 14 Nov 07

Milky way in Cygnus, 12th August 2007

new 25 Nov 07

Using GRIP


Download GRIP

revised 28 Jun 10

What's new in GRIP

revised 23 Jun 10

Unusual features in GRIP


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

new 24 Aug 09

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

Programming with GRIP


Download source code and API

revised 13 Dec 09

What is Java?


Images in Java


TIFF: little- or big-endian?


ImFrame class structure


Reading & writing images in Java

revised 2 Apr 07

Image metadata

revised 3 Feb 08

Odds & ends


The Mandelbrot curve

new 25 Nov 07

How these pages were made

revised 27 Feb 10

Some links

revised 28 Jun 10