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 ...

Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have revolutionized amateur astronomy, enabling astrophotography from previously unsuitable locations due to their enhanced light sensitivity and associated software ...

The Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope has captured its first on-sky images with the production Sinistro CCD camera. Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT), with first lights at nine ...

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 universe ...

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 ...

Early astrophotography (before 1990s) relied heavily on film, producing images of lower quality by today's standards. The introduction of CCD cameras in the early 1990s significantly improved image ...

Telescope Cameras for Amateur Astro-Photographers The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of imaging hardware and software for astronomy, has released a series of highly affordable, low ...

When a group of five friends started staring at the night skies over Santa Barbara back in the 1980s, no one would have guessed that their after-work passion would turn into a full-time profession.

This morning, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers who made advances in optical technologies. Charles Kao won the half the prize for leading the search for development of ...

What's that in the sky? A bird? A plane? Oh, it's just some junk floating around in space, posing major threats to our military's spy satellites. To help keep an eye on it, engineers at DARPA, MIT and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using a virtual-phase, thermoelectrically cooled CCD, a relatively inexpensive but very sensitive slow-scan camera has been built. The primary ...