Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) are the state-of-the-art detector in many fields of observational science. Updated to include all of the latest developments in CCDs, this second edition of the Handbook... This description may be from another edition of this product.
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every thing about learning CCDs
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I loved it,... i though me EVERY thing about CCDs,...how do they work...and how to understand the results....
a very valuable book, entertaining too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
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.
An essential reference
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Steve is the master of the art of CCD photometry. This is an essential book for professional astronomers and amateurs alike.
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