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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. One of the world’s most new important telescopes—due to have ...

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 ...

To this day, I absolutely love visual astronomy, using all types and sizes of telescopes to gaze at the celestial treats above. I’ve spent many wonderful hours and have seen many wonderful things, and ...

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, ...

Charge-coupled-device cameras are a vital component of many applications involving digital imaging. Neil Savage presents a summary of some of the latest products. Cameras based on ...

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 ...

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.