This book shows amateur astronomers how to use one-shot CCD cameras & how to get the best out of equipment that exposes all three color images at once. Because this book is specifically devoted to one-shot imaging One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging" begins by looking at all the basics
- what equipment will be needed how color imaging is done & most importantly what specific steps need to be followed after the one-shot color images are taken. What is one-shot color imaging? Typically astronomical cooled-chip CCD cameras record only one color at a time
- rather like old-fashioned black & white cameras fitted with color filters. Three images are taken in sequence
- in red blue & green light
- & these are then merged by software in a PC to form a color image. Each of the three images must be taken separately through a suitable color filter which means that the total exposure time for every object is more than tripled. When exposure times can run into tens of minutes or even hours for each of the three colors this can be a major drawback for the time-pressed amateur. " One-Shot Color Astronomical Imaging" describes the most cost-effective & time-efficient way for any amateur astronomer to begin to photograph the deep-sky."



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Is your son or daughter applying to university? Do they need help making their personal statement stand out? Or perhaps you are a teacher who needs to advise their pupils about making a great UCAS application? For any parents & teachers wishing to offer guidance to anxious Year 12/13 students on completing the hardest part of the UCAS application Creating Your UCAS Personal Statement will prove invaluable. Packed full of unique tips & advice based on first-hand research advice from successful other applicants & insider information direct from the universities themselves this guide will ensure students are given a head start in the all-important race for a place on their chosen degree course. Trotman's One-stop Guides are a series of short booklets providing essential but accessible information to students at the key decision-making points in their school lives. Offering unparalleled value for your money these unique guides supply bite-size chunks of advice on a range of subjects from preparing for university to applying for a first job. They are designed for bulk purchase by schools & colleges for distribution to their relevant year groups parents & teachers
- innovative & inspiring they are easy-to-read yet packed with vital information.
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Walter Benjamin
- philosopher essayist literary & cultural theorist
- was one of the most original writers & thinkers of the

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Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. With characteristic perversity ? & trademark originality
- The Ongoing Moment is Dyer's unique & idiosyncratic history of photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles Dyer looks at the ways that canonical figures such as Alfred Stieglitz Paul Strand Walker Evans Kertesz Dorothea Lange Diane Arbus & William Eggleston have photographed the same scenes & objects (benches hats hands roads). In doing so Dyer constructs a narrative in which those photographers ? many of whom never met in their lives ? constantly come into contact with each other. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the non-fiction work of art.
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A compelling novel about four young women in wartime London from the best-selling author of London Belles & My Sweet Valentine. In Article Row in London's Holborn
- four young women Tilly Sally Dulcie & Agnes
- have already been witnesses to the heartache & pain that Hitler's bombs have inflicted on ordinary Londoners. Tilly is desperate to wed her beau Drew. Terrified that something will happen to prevent them from being together her fears seem to be coming true when he is called back home to America. For her mother Olive this only adds to her worries for Tilly. But she has her own hands full when her friend & neighbour Sergeant Dawson gets some terrible news. When Olive lends a hand she finds herself at the sharp end of some unwelcome gossip. For Dulcie the war has brought an old flame David back into her life. But his terrible injuries have changed his life forever. Can something more develop out of their friendship? & for Agnes she is about to find out something that will change her life too. In this seemingly endless war the girls will learn about love loss & heartache. But they like thousands of other Londoners are determined to win the battle on the home front
- no matter what it takes.


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In September 1981 BBC One screened the pilot episode of a British sitcom set in a high-rise block of council flats in Peckham south London
- 9 million people tuned in. 15 years seven series & over 60 episodes later 24.3 million people watched the final instalment of Only Fools & Horses
- over a third of the British population & the largest audience for a sitcom ever recorded. In the 30 years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House Only Fools & Horses has won countless awards & is still Britains most-watched & best-loved sitcom. Del Boys overwhelming popularity has even inspired the Oxford English Dictionary to include a selection of his most famous words & phrases
- lovely jubbly A & twonk A" are now found within its pages. In this fascinating entertaining & meticulously researched book acclaimed biographer Graham Mc Cann goes behind the scenes to tell the inside story of Britains most enduring comedy. With major contributions from the people who wrote produced & starred in the programme & material drawn from the BBC archives its time to take one last trip down Hooky Street.. ."


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In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House Only Fools & Horses has won countless awards & is still Britains most-watched & best-loved sitcom. Del Boys overwhelming popularity has even inspired the Oxford English Dictionary to include a selection of his most famous words & phrases such as lovely jubbly & twonk. In this fascinating entertaining & meticulously researched book acclaimed biographer Graham Mc Cann goes behind the scenes to tell the inside story of Britains most enduring comedy. With major contributions from the people who wrote produced & starred in the programme & with material drawn from the BBC archives its time to take one last trip down Hooky Street.. . ...

At its height more than 24 million people watched the classic comedy series Only Fools & Horses making it Britains most popular television programme ever. The hilarious exploits of wheeler-dealer Del Trotter & his dopey brother Rodney enthralled everyone from real market traders to members of the Royal Family. Only Fools & Horses
- The Official Inside Story takes us behind the scenes to reveal the secrets of the hit show & is fully authorised by the family of John Sullivan the shows creator & writer. Containing in-depth interviews with the shows stars including Sir David Jason & Nicholas Lyndhurst & key members of the production team this engaging tribute

Includes:: a comprehensive episode guide. It also reveals how the show was rejected when it was first offered to the BBC how Sir David Jason nearly missed out on the starring role & the tragedy of the death of one of its stars during filming. Written by bestselling author Steve Clark the only writer on set for the filming of Only Fools & Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass & prequel Rock & Chips the book gives a fascinating & unique insight into this legendary series.


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Something is about to go wrong. Very wrong. What do you expect if the Supreme Being decides to get away from it all for a few days leaving his naturally inquisitive son to look after the cosmic balance of things? A minor hiccup with a human soul & a welding machine soon leads to a violent belch & before you know it the human condition
- not to mention the lemming condition
- is tumbling down the slippery slope to chaos.

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When psychiatrist & past-life therapist Dr. Brian Weiss began treating two new patients Elizabeth & Pedro he found that although they were strangers they described the same past lives with a stunning similarity of detail & emotion. Their joint past unfolded quite separately in his office; they seemed to have loved each other across time. In this gripping book internationally bestselling author Dr. Brian Weiss tells the extraordinary story of their love & explains that each of us has a soulmate whom we have loved in past incarnations & who waits to reunite with us now. ...