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 ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The astronomy community has a new tool for studying the sun, with the inauguration this week of the world's largest solar telescope. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located in Maui, Hawai'i ...

The telescope relies on a behemoth CCD detector that is around the same size as the average car, but several thousands of pounds heavier. It is the largest astronomical digital camera ever ...

1.0 OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed Two Sets of STIS/CCD 8837 (CCD Dark Monitor-Part 1) The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (CCD) was used to monitor the darks. The ...

It promised to combine the camera, telescope, and mount in one package and let me control it all from the comfort of my lounge via an iPad. It has a 250mm focal length and 50mm aperture and takes ...