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Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing

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As you learn to acquire and manipulate digital data in your new hobby, you will need to use one or more computers as an integral part of your overall imaging system. There are many ways of handling the computer hardware and software issues and I will outline just a couple in this chapter.

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Parker, G. (2017). Computational Considerations – Data Acquisition and Image Processing. In: Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46316-2_4

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