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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Link: Press Releases August 2007. " A team of astronomers have taken pictures of the stars that are sharper than anything produced by the Hubble telescope, at 50 thousandths of the cost. The ...

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?

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 ...