Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software (repost)

Greg Parker, "Making Beautiful Deep-Sky Images: Astrophotography with Affordable Equipment and Software"


2007 | ISBN-10: 0387713522 | 178 pages | PDF | 7 MB

This book is based around the author’s beautiful and sometimes awe-inspiring color images and mosaics of deep-sky objects.


The images were used as the basis of a public exhibition held at the University of Southampton (Summer 2006), attended by the press, local radio and TV interviewers as well as the public. The book describes how similar images can be created by amateur astronomers, using commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras. Subsequent processing and image enhancement in the “electronic darkroom” is covered in detail as well.


Not everybody can afford the biggest and best telescopes and CCD cameras, so a range of telescopes and equipment is considered, from the author’s 11-inch with Hyperstar camera, down to more affordable instruments.


Appendices provide links to free software – not available from a single source – and are themselves an invaluable resource.

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Language of Images: Visualization and Meaning in Tantras

Language of Images: Visualization and Meaning in Tantras (Asian Thought and Culture, Book 71) by Sthaneshwar Timalsina


English | 2015 | ISBN: 1433125560 | 175 pages | PDF | 7 MB

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly misunderstood. This book is the first to systematically address the hermeneutic and philosophical aspects of visualizing images in Tantric practices. While examining the issues of embodiment and emotion, this volume initiates a discourse on image-consciousness, imagination, memory, and recall. The main objective of this book is to explore the meaning of the opaque Tantric forms, and with this, the text aims to introduce visual language to discourse. Language of Images is the result of a long and sustained engagement with Tantric practitioners and philosophical and exegetical texts. Due to its synthetic approach of utilizing multiple ways to read cultural artifacts, this work stands alone in its attempt to unravel the esoteric domains of Tantric practice by means of addressing the culture of visualization.

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Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick"s Iconic Images of the Kennedys [Repost]

Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick"s Iconic Images of the Kennedys by Kitty Kelley


English | Nov. 13, 2012 | ISBN: 031264342X | 240 Pages | EPUB | 10.87 MB

A bestselling author goes behind the lens of a legendary photographer to capture a magical time A consummate photojournalist, Stanley Tretick was sent by United Press International to follow the Kennedy campaign of 1960. The photographer soon befriended the candidate and took many of JFK"s best pictures during this time. When Kennedy took office, Tretick was given extensive access to the White House, and the picture magazine Look hired him to cover the president and his family. Tretick is best known today for the photographs he took of President Kennedy relaxing with his children. His photographs helped define the American family of the early sixties and lent Kennedy an endearing credibility that greatly contributed to his popularity. Accompanied by an insightful, heartwarming essay from Kitty Kelley–Tretick"s close friend–about the relationship between the photographer and JFK, Capturing Camelot includes some of the most memorable images of America"s Camelot and brings to life the uniquely hopeful historical era from which it emerged.

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