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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The revolution is here. One device — the CCD — started transforming amateur astronomy a decade or so ago. CCDs, and the software associated with them, have enabled amateurs to image celestial objects ...

According to CEFCA, JPCam is the definitive scientific instrument of the OAJ JST/T250 telescope, designed to perform large sky surveys. JPCam is the second largest astronomical camera in the world, ...

This article is an excerpt from The Great Comet of 2013, a special issue published by Discover and Astronomy magazines. You can purchase your copy of the 68-page ...

Sooner or later, you're going to point your pocket digicam at the moon -- and be incredibly disappointed that the little smear of light in the image doesn't look like this photo. Why not?

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 ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- 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 ...