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Covington, Michael Aaron was born on September 14, 1957 in Valdosta, Georgia, United States. Son of Charles Gordon and Hazel (Roberts) Covington.
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In the last few years, digital SLR cameras have taken the astrophotography world by storm. It is now easier to photograph the stars than ever before! They are compact and portable, flexible to adapt with different lenses and for telescope use, and above all DSLR cameras are easy and enjoyable to use. In this concise guide, experienced astrophotography expert Michael Covington outlines the simple, enduring basics that will enable you to get started, and help you get the most from your equipment. He covers a wide selection of equipment, simple and advanced projects, technical considerations and image processing techniques. Unlike other astrophotography books, this one focuses specifically on DSLR cameras, not astronomical CCDs, non-DSLR digital cameras, or film. This guide is ideal for astrophotographers who wish to develop their skills using DSLR cameras and as a friendly introduction to amateur astronomers or photographers curious about photographing the night sky.
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This updated edition includes the most recent terms relating to constantly expanding computer and internet technology. More than 3,200 terms and definitions deal with― • Practical guidance for business software users • Computer security, law, and ethics • Computer programming, with examples in several computer languages • Social media, Internet culture, and their latest developments Previous editions of this user-friendly book have proved especially helpful to readers who feel intimidated by computer technicians’ jargon. The authors clarify technical terminology while keeping to the highest standards of accuracy. One grateful reader called this book the “Rosetta Stone” for deciphering computer terms. Features many line illustrations and tables.
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With this extraordinary handbook, you, too, can frame the stars and have them hanging on your livingroom walls. Astrophotography for the Amateur provides a complete guide to taking pictures of stars, galaxies, the Moon, the Sun, comets, meteors and eclipses, using equipment and materials readily available to the hobbyist. Based on suggestions from readers of the first edition, the new edition has been completely updated and expanded to include new chapters on computer image processing and CCD imaging; expanded advice on choosing cameras and telescopes; completely updated information about films; a much larger bibliography; and hundreds of new photographs (in color and black and white) demonstrating the latest equipment and techniques. Astrophotography for the Amateur has become the standard handbook for all amateur astronomers. This new edition provides an ideal introduction for beginners and a complete handbook for advanced amateurs. It will also appeal to photography enthusiasts who will discover how to take spectacular images with only modest equipment. Michael A. Covington received his Ph.D. at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Syntactic Theory in the High Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1984). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and is the Associate Director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at the University of Georgia.
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An examination of natural language processing in Prolog for those who know Prolog but not linguistics, this book enables students to move quickly into writing and working in useful software. It features many working computer programs that implement subsystems of a natural language processor. These programs are designed to be understood in isolation from one another and are compatible with an Edinburgh-compatible Prolog implementation, such as Quintus, ESL, Arity and ALS.
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Covington, Michael Aaron was born on September 14, 1957 in Valdosta, Georgia, United States. Son of Charles Gordon and Hazel (Roberts) Covington.
Bachelor summa cum laude, University Georgia, 1977. Master of Philosophy, Cambridge University, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1982.
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1982-1984; research associate, U. Georgia, Athens, 1984-1985; assistant research scientist, U. Georgia, Athens, 1985-1990; associate research scientist, U. Georgia, Athens, since 1990. Contributing editor Visual Developer Magazine, Scottsdale, Arizona, since 1990.
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(This updated edition includes the most recent terms relat...)
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(With this extraordinary handbook, you, too, can frame the...)
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior), Association for Computational Linguistics, Linguistic Society.of American, New York Christian Science Lewis Society, American Radio Relay League, Association for Logic Programming.
Married Melody Mauldin, July 25, 1982. Children: Catherine Anne, Sharon Elizabeth.