Handbook of CCD Astronomy, 2nd Edition (Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers)

I feel like this is a must for any optical astronomers who take pictures/use CCD's. There is also 1-2 chapters that are useful for non-optical astronomers

This book offers an easy and approachable way to understand CCDs. Howell's witty writing keeps you on your toes! The length and depth of each topic is appropriate for a researcher who wants to learn how to characterize her telescope's CCD.

Great - historic at this point - read. Most of the concepts described in this book still apply to modern CCD cameras.

Very good introduction to CCDs in astronomy. Great examples help understand the concepts.

For a graduate student who has not had an observational astronomy course, the process of self-teaching the essentials of CCD astronomy is not a smooth one. You really don't know what kind of things you have to worry about before going to a telescope!Though this book does not cover comprehensively the topic of detection techniques in scientific contexts (too much for such a small book), it has an excellent, totally readable introduction to the basics of CCD detection in astronomy. The author obviously has been in the field for a long time, so his numerous anecdotes from his rich, past expericnes are entertaining as well as enlightening. It is such a short book but very satisfying, which is rare for a technical science book.This book would make a perfect textbook or supplement reading for any decent undergraduate observational astronomy course. Highly recommended as the first reading for observers.

I loved it,... i though me EVERY thing about CCDs,...how do they work...and how to understand the results....

Steve is the master of the art of CCD photometry. This is an essential book for professional astronomers and amateurs alike.

This book is a very nice introduction but sometimes lacks a bit of in depth detail how to exactly tackle some problems.

デジタル化の波は銀塩カメラを駆逐し、アマチュア向けの天体写真も徐々にCCDが増えつつあります。本書はそのようなCCDカメラの使用について多くのアドバイスを与えてくれるでしょう。