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 ...

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

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 ...

Last of six meter-scale optical components delivered to SLAC, with CCD camera's shipment to Chile expected next summer. The last of the enormous optical components for what will become the world's ...

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST), the latest addition to the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory, has made its first release of impressive images of the southern sky. The VST is a ...

The Imaging Source, an international manufacturer of imaging hardware and software for astronomy, has released a series of highly affordable, low noise telescope cameras for amateur ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cutting-edge camera is installed at the summit of Mauna Kea. Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., in conjunction with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Osaka University, and Kyoto University ...

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 ...