Although astronomical CCD cameras can be very costly, digital cameras the kind you use on holiday on the other hand, are relatively inexpensive. Moreover, their technology especially thermal noise, sensitivity (ISO number) and resolution has progressed to a point where such cameras are more than capable of photographing the brighter astronomical objects.

Now Tony Buick has teamed up with fellow author and astro imager Phil Pugh, to produce a completely revised, updated, and extended second edition to How to Photograph the Moon and Planets with your Digital Camera, first published in...