by Kanto, Munger, and Berry
Detailed instructions on how to build the Cookbook 211 and the Cookbook 245 cameras. Lots and lots of information packed into 176 pages. Includes diskette with software to lead you through construction of the cameras step by step, and image acquisition software. Requires IBM compatible PC. $29.95. Order from Willmann-Bell.
by Richard Berry
The best way to shoot deep-sky images. Multi245 allows you to shoot up to 255 integrations with your Cookbook 245 CCD and then combine them into a single track-and-stack image. Automatic precision dark matching, flat-fielding, and brightness scaling. More info. To see how Multi245 combined 58 integrations of 60 seconds each, Richard Berry.
Makes making tricolor and quad-color images with your cookbook camera fast and easy. Automatic caching means your originals remain intact. Resamples, color balances, registers to sub-pixel accuracy, creates 24-bit TIF or BMP color images. Designed for 100% compatibility with CB245 and Multi245.
Color245 users can upgrade to QColor for $19.95 plus $1 shipping. QColor $49.95 plus $3.00 shipping. Order direct from Richard Berry.
by Richard Berry
The software that Richard Berry wrote for processing his own Cookbook 245 images. Raw images go in and finished images come out, ready to send to your favorite astronomical magazine. Calibrates, scales, enhances, crops, resamples, averages. Does darks and flats, unsharp masks and mesofeature enhancements. Loads PA/PA, P1/P2/P3, PC, PIX, and FITS formats and saves images in the FITS and TIFF formats. Free upgrades for 1 year. More info. Great software at a reasonable price. $49.95 plus #3.00 shipping. Includes manual. Order direct from Richard Berry.
You couldn't make your own circuit boards of this quality for the price offered. Double-sided epoxy fibreglass boards have plated-through holes, and are solder masked and silk-screened. Two board set (interface acard and preamp card) is $19.95. Order from Willmann-Bell.
Save the trouble of seaching high and low for the right electronics parts. University Optics offers a variety of electronics kits at very reasonable prices. Call University Optics for more information.
Made available just one year after the initial release of The CCD Camera Cookbook, the upgrade kit features the enhanced image acquisition software, 211PLUS and 245PLUS, and detailed instructions for modifying your Cookbook camera to take advantage of Low-Dark-Current mode to reduce thermal noise by a factor of ten or more. The upgrade kits is $19.95. Order from Willmann-Bell, Inc..
University Optics is offering a fully machined and superbly finished camea head aluminum parts set for the Cookbook cameras. Screwdriver assembly saves you hours and hours. Specify Cookbook 211 and Cookbook 245 parts set. $89.95. Order from University Optics.
Put your 35mm camera lenses to work with these handy lens adapters. Images with 200mm telephoto rivals what 35mm film used to do with a C-8. Perfect for portable and piggyback imaging. Adapter has T-thread on the back and female camera body or bayonet mount on the front. All standard camera makes available. Call University Optics for more information.
by Richard Berry
This two-hour VHS videotape includes stunning title footage of a flyby
of a CCD image of M51, image processing Don Parker's planetary images,
and an hour-long observing session with richard Berry and his Cookbook
camera. $19.95 plus #3.00 shipping. Order from Richard
Berry.
by Richard Berry
Image processing is easy when you learn it with this book and the software included in every copy. With this systematic introduction, you learn everything about image processing from pixels to transfer functions. Every copy includes the original AstroIP software and sample images plus AIP245 software for processing images from the Cookbook 245 camera. Requires an IBM compatible PC. $29.95. Order from Willmann-Bell.
by Richard Berry
Good equipment is half what you need to shoot outstanding CCD images. This book supplies the other half: techniques that produce good data. Learn how to match your telescope and CCD to one another, what focal ratios to use for what celestial object, how to determine exposures times, proper image calibration, and much more. QwikPIX software supplied with the book demonstrates the principles involved. Requires an IBM compatible PC. $29.95. Order from Willmann-Bell.
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