World's Largest Astronomical CCD Camera Installed On Palomar Observatory Telescope. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2003 / 07 / 030730080026.htm ...

The year was 2021, when our Gear Editor, Feroz Khan, spoke to Professor Aaron Roodman about the world’s largest camera that ...

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 ...

Both cameras can also be used as autoguiders to control motorized telescope mounts. The new ST-8300M (monochrome) and ST-8300C (color) cameras are based on Kodak's KAF-8300, 8.3 megapixel, full ...

SBIG introduces its new STT-8300M cooled CCD camera for amateur astronomers. ... Most of these will be found on telescopes and mounts that cost upward of $10-15K, ...

A two-story tall, digital camera is taking shape in California. It will ultimately go on a telescope in Chile where it will survey the sky, looking for things that appear suddenly or change over time.

Hubble's CCD cameras don't measure the color of the incoming light directly. But the telescope does have various filters that can be applied to let in only a specific wavelength range, or color ...

These new low-noise cameras are mounted on the viewfinder of a regular telescope rig (see pics below), and can take pictures with extremely long exposure times (up to 60 minutes) or movies with ...

In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects. Galileo Galilei quickly improved the designs and became the first to explore ...

This buyers guide, “Join the CCD revolution,” appeared in the June 2010 issue of Astronomy magazine. For most of the past 150 years, amateur astrophotography has been for only those who had ...

Hubble's CCD cameras don't measure the color of the incoming light directly. But the telescope does have various filters that can be applied to let in only a specific wavelength range, or color ...

A camera-to-telescope adapter holds an eyepiece, which in turn projects an enlarged image onto the CCD. The effective focal length of the setup depends on the eyepiece: its distance from the CCD ...