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Table of Contents
OBJECTS PHOTOGRAPHED IN ASTRONOMY 7
APPARATUS 19
Telescopes and Cameras 19
The Faintest Stars Photographable 28
Spectrographs 31
Spectroheliograph and Coronagraph 37
Light Filters 40
PROPERTIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS 43
Sensitometry 43
Failure of the Reciprocity Law 51
Theory of Latent-Image Formation 53
Addition of Exposures 60
Hypersensitization 62
FINE STRUCTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES 64
Turbidity 66
Adjacency Effects 68
Granularity 71
PHOTOMETRY 76
Tone Reproduction in Prints 76
Measurement of Stellar Magnitudes 78
Spectrum Photometry: Standardized Plates 82
Spectrum Photometry: standardized
Objective Prism Plates
83
Microphotometry 85

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Publication Information: Book Title: Photography in Astronomy. Contributors: E. W. H. Selwyn - author. Publisher: Eastman Kodak Co.. Place of Publication: Rochester, NY. Publication Year: 1950. Page Number: 3.
    
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