Professor Greg Parker was Head of the Nanoscale Systems Integration Group at Southampton University in southern England until his recent retirement. His deep-sky astronomical images have been published in Astronomy Now and Sky at Night magazines. He is the author of Introductory Semiconductor Device Physics (IOP, ISBN 0750310219), and has written many scientific papers and articles, mostly in the area of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as a chapter (Guided-wave Optical Communications: Materials) in Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Materials: Science & Technology.

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• How did I start?.- The Beginning – and a Serious Health Warning!.- Assembling your Imaging System.- Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing.- A Permanent Setup.- First Light – Choosing your Objects.- First Light – your First Objects.- Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor.- Hyperstar III Imaging.- Parallel Imaging with an Array.- Fundamentals of Image Processing.- Processing Professional Data.- The Deep-Sky Images.- Differentiating your Work.- Your Largest Resource.- Book Recommendations.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Physics World Article.- Greg Parker.- Postscript to the 2nd Edition.-  Index.

Professor Greg Parker was Head of the Nanoscale Systems Integration Group at Southampton University in southern England until his recent retirement. His deep-sky astronomical images have been published in Astronomy Now and Sky at Night magazines. He is the author of Introductory Semiconductor Device Physics (IOP, ISBN 0750310219), and has written many scientific papers and articles, mostly in the area of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as a chapter (Guided-wave Optical Communications: Materials) in Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Materials: Science & Technology.

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• How did I start?.- The Beginning – and a Serious Health Warning!.- Assembling your Imaging System.- Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing.- A Permanent Setup.- First Light – Choosing your Objects.- First Light – your First Objects.- Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor.- Hyperstar III Imaging.- Parallel Imaging with an Array.- Fundamentals of Image Processing.- Processing Professional Data.- The Deep-Sky Images.- Differentiating your Work.- Your Largest Resource.- Book Recommendations.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Physics World Article.- Greg Parker.- Postscript to the 2nd Edition.-  Index.

Professor Greg Parker was Head of the Nanoscale Systems Integration Group at Southampton University in southern England until his recent retirement. His deep-sky astronomical images have been published in Astronomy Now and Sky at Night magazines. He is the author of Introductory Semiconductor Device Physics (IOP, ISBN 0750310219), and has written many scientific papers and articles, mostly in the area of photonics and optoelectronics, as well as a chapter (Guided-wave Optical Communications: Materials) in Elsevier’s Encyclopaedia of Materials: Science & Technology.

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• How did I start?.- The Beginning – and a Serious Health Warning!.- Assembling your Imaging System.- Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing.- A Permanent Setup.- First Light – Choosing your Objects.- First Light – your First Objects.- Wide-Field Imaging with a Short Focal Length Refractor.- Hyperstar III Imaging.- Parallel Imaging with an Array.- Fundamentals of Image Processing.- Processing Professional Data.- The Deep-Sky Images.- Differentiating your Work.- Your Largest Resource.- Book Recommendations.- Appendix 1.- Appendix 2.- Physics World Article.- Greg Parker.- Postscript to the 2nd Edition.-  Index.