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Taking images of the night sky can be extremely rewarding, producing beautiful images that provide a permanent record of what you have seen. Often known as “the dark side of astronomy” to the beginner, even to some seasoned astronomers, astrophotography does appear to be very much a dark art. Mention of stacking images, flat-fielding and light frames seems to talk of a highly complicated process and can send many people scurrying off for cover long before they have even started.
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Eagle, D. (2014). Basic Astrophotography. In: From Casual Stargazer to Amateur Astronomer. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8766-1_13
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