The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging - 256 pages, 9x7" $99.95 ISBN 0-9711237-5-6
 

The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging

Video Tutorials (non-linking version of DVD table of contents)

Chapter 2 Video Tutorials

Tutorial A: Setting Levels When You First Open a File

Tutorial B: Creating a Standard Curve - the Dim Zone Point

Tutorial C: Creating a Standard Curve - Middle and Bright Zone Points

Tutorial D: Adjusting Levels after Each Iteration of the Standard Curve

Chapter 3 Video Tutorials

PowerPoint Video: The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging (Day 1 of Imaging Camp)

Demonstration of Zone System Techniques for Luminance Images

Small version of PowerPoint Video: The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging

Chapter 6 Video Tutorials

PowerPoint Video: Color Balancing (Day 3 of Imaging Camp)

LRGB Processing Using the NewAstro Zone System

Small Version of PowerPoint Video: Color Balancing (Day 3 of Imaging Camp)

Chapter 7 Video Tutorials

Fixing Star Elongation (source file at /video/C7/NGC 253_00559_Clear.fit)

Soft Stars, a tutorial by Don Waid

Other Video Tutorials

G2V Color Calibration, a tutorial by Don Goldman (Astrodon filters)

The Art of Seeing Management - The nature of seeing, and how to improve it


Credit for images used in tutorials

Chapter 2, M74 - Data acquired by Jim McKay of Branford CT using the BlackBird Observatory 20" RC while participating in a Ron Wodaski CCD imaging class at New Mexico Skies, Cloudcroft, NM. September 2003.