A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [NASA Full Color]: Discover The Amazing World Of Astrophotography Using Your iPhone, Samsung and Others!

A Guide to Smartphone Astrophotography [NASA Full Color]: Discover The Amazing World Of Astrophotography Using Your iPhone, Samsung and Others!

* Paperback Version - 190 Pages - Full COLOR * Discover The Amazing World Of Astrophotography Using Your iPhone, Samsung and Others! There's a fabulous world to discover with photography of the heavens, planets, moons, stars, constellations and much, much more! And now NASA scientists show you how to get great results by using your smartphone! Intro from the author: This book is a how-to guide for doing your own smartphone astrophotography and connecting with the magnificent universe to which we are a part. NASA has a vested interest in encouraging younger students and the public to better appreciate the night sky. For decades we have been involved in public education to connect the public with the many astronomical space missions whose discoveries grace the front pages of our news feeds. Recently, the NASA Space Science Education Consortium (NSSEC) at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland was set up to explore new ways to connect educators, students and life-long learners with the science and technology of NASA. The NSSEC works with many education groups around the country to develop new ideas that engage people with science, technology, engineering, art and math (we call this STEAM education). One of these is the Mobile Sensors Lab, which was created to explore how smartphone sensors can be used to make measurements of environmental factors such as light, magnetism, sound and radiation. Of course, the camera is the most obvious ‘sensor’ and as a former amateur astrophotographer I immediately started to explore how everyone could use their smartphones to conduct interesting space science projects on their own. Many of these projects are available through the citizen sciences app on your smartphone called Anecdata (also anecdata.org) and go by the names of Satellite Streak Watcher, Night Sky Light Pollution, and Smartphone Astrophotography, with more on the way. Meanwhile, I wrote this guide so that you can see just how easy and fun it is to create your own inspiring astrophotographs for whatever reason you choose to do so! It is a collection of best practices for how to use a smartphone to take photos of astronomical objects. It is based on the experiences of myself, as well as 50 other amateur photographers who gave their input. Like astronomers, amateur astronomers are captivated by the night sky and what they can glean from carefully looking among the star clouds. For those of us that have caught this spirit of adventure, we are compelled to give it as much fodder as we can. We might start out with simple naked-eye observing and quickly move on to using binoculars or building our own telescopes just to see fainter details in whatever we can find in the sky. This leads to learning about constellations, the basic properties of planets and stars, and looking for specific ‘deep sky’ objects. Some amateur astronomers choose to be satisfied by what they can see through their eyepieces under dark sky conditions. Others decide to learn how to photograph and document what they have found by steadily mastering the methods of astrophotography. Thanks to the accelerated evolution of smartphones for low-light photography, just about every phone bought after 2015 can produce spectacular images of the moon, planets and star clusters among many other targets. Get this book, grab your phone, and look to the stars! It's time to start capturing beautiful images and discovering the amazing world beyond our normal horizon. Click Add to Cart now...