The Student Edition of the 'Catchers of the Light' is a complete time unlimited version of the eBook, but is available only to bona fide students studying at School, College or University at a discounted price of $49.99.

To obtain the discounted Student Edition, just email us at students@catchersofthelight.com, giving details of where you are studying and what type of course you are pursuing, and we will send you your discount code to get $30 off the normal purchase price of $79.99.

As such it will provide a valuable sources of information to any College or University student taking courses in Astronomy, Astrophysics, History of Science or Photography, but at a discounted price of $49.99.

It will also unfortunately (for the student that is) give their lecturers and professors a new dimension to their teaching and course content.

The 'Catchers of the Light' will give the student an unprecendented insight into many aspects of their learning experience. A few examples of which are given below.

For Astronomy and Astrophysics undergraduates it will provide a great source of reference for:

• Role of Photography in Astronomy; Origins, Lunar, Solar, Solar System and Deep Space imaging;
• Space Exploration of the Moon, Sun, Planets, Comets and Asteroids; from the early Mariner probes to Mercury, Venus and Mars, the Voyager misions to the outer planets, the Martian Rovers, Spirit & Opportunity and the demotion of the now planet Pluto;
• Evolution of the Mapping the Heavens; from cave drawings, astronomical cartography to modern photographic surveys;
• Classification of Stellar Spectra from the early work of Rutherfurd and Donati to the development of the Harvard Classification and onto the current Morgan-Keenan system;
• Astronomical Spectroscopy; development from the time of Fraunhofer, Bunsen, Kirchhoff, Huggins, Secchi and E. C. Pickering and into the twentieth century;
• Cosmology and the Distance Scale of the Universe; including the work of Hubble, Humason, Slipher, Shapley and Lemaitre;

For the History of Science scholar it will give detailed accounts of:

• History of Scientific Photography; through the efforts of Arago, Fizeau, Foucault, Whipple, J. W. Draper and their contemporaries;
• Role of the Church in Astronomy; the origins of the Jesuits and their influence on scientific thought, the Vatican Observatory;
• Contribution of Women to the development of Photography and Science in general; e.g. Lady Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins, Maria Mitchell, Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming and others;
• History of the Telescope, from the time of Galileo, the Newtonian Reflector, the dominance of the Refractor in Astronomical Research, the introduction of Photographic Refractors, the coming of the Large Silvered Mirrored Reflector; and the modern optical systems of Ritchey-Chretien and Schmidt as used in today's 'super telescopes';

For the Photographic student it will cover the following important topics:

• Description of early chemically based Photographic Processes, such as the Daguerreotype, the Collodion and the Gelatino-Bromide, etc.;
• Advent of Plastic Film and the Introduction of the Digital Camera; monochromatic, orthochromatic, isochromatic and panchromatic emulsions; the work of George Eastman and the formation of KODAK; the role of Boyle, Smith and Tompsett in the use of the CCD as an imaging device;
• Detailed Appendices containing definitions and accounts of all the major photographic processes, both chemical and digital;
• Biographies of Early Pioneers including Louis Daguerre, Nicephore Niepce, John William Draper, John Adams Whipple, Frederick Scott Archer, Richard Leach Maddox and many others;

Not forgetting - it is above all else - a terrific read about 'True Tales of Adventure, Adversity and Ultimate Triumph'.

"These Hitherto forgotten and anonymous pioneers of Astrophotography have been resurrected by Dr Hughes to give them their rightful place in history.These are not fictitious characters invented by the author but actual people with hopes and aspirations to push their chosen subject into the future. A history book, a reference book, a story book. A classic." - Claire Ferguson, Edinburgh, Scotland.