During the past several years, astroimagers have seen an unprecedented number of high-quality, innovative cameras come on the market. While many of these products are from manufacturers well-known to ...

The Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) is adding two new models to its line of specialized, high-resolution CCD cameras for astrophotography and spectography. The ST-8300M and ST-8300C both feature ...

For most of the past 150 years, amateur astrophotography has been for only those who had unlimited patience and deep pockets. Then, in 1969, two scientists, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith working ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the ...

iKon-L is a revolutionary large-area, high-sensitivity CCD platform. The 2048x2048 sensor array and 13.5 um pixels deliver outstanding field of view, resolution and dynamic range. iKon-L is a ...

Photographing the night sky has become more popular among hobbyists and professionals alike, and having a quality camera for astrophotography will give you the best chance of success. It is a fairly ...

November is a fine month for astrophotography, with long nights leading up to next month’s solstice. It’s getting colder down here, but crisper above, with the bright winter stars of Taurus and Orion ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

e2v’s CryoCam, a unique 1.2 Gigapixel camera subsystem for the Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) project has successfully passed another critical milestone.

When it comes to doing astrophotography, there are only three ways that you can go about doing it right. First, we can go back to the old days of film, which is not used much these days by ...

push the limits of the unknown for years to come. The new camera is known as QUEST (Quasar Equatorial Survey Team).