Vikram Dhillon, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Sheffield, had just spent half an hour showing what one of the world’s fastest astronomical cameras could do. HiPERCAM has studied white ...
The SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) National Accelerator Laboratory has announced the completion of the LSST Camera, which is capable of capturing 3,200-megapixel images, and will now be ...
On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the world’s largest digital camera is preparing to power up. Its mission is simple yet ambitious — to photograph the entire night sky in extreme detail and unlock ...
In the first of a three-part series, David S Young recalls what it was like to photograph a total solar eclipse with film ...
Photograph of the camera, with one of the colour filters positioned in place. As historic partners, SLAC called on CNRS scientists to contribute to the electronic system at the focal plane of the ...
A digital camera the size of a sedan was recently completed with the hopes of gleaning new information about dark energy, dark matter, the Milky Way, and more. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time ...
On screensaver mode, smart TVs often rotate through photos of natural wonders, from waterfalls to canyons. Now imagine hundreds of those televisions, with one single image spread out among them. The ...
You may have seen an eclipse or two and are now motivated to become an astronomy hobbyist. The great April event is the perfect opportunity to start working on your astrophotography skills. But do you ...
If you already own a telescope and want more from your amateur astronomy hobby, have you considered astrophotography? With the advent of new camera technology, it is now possible for the average ...
Ready to scan the night sky to look for evidence of dark matter, identify near-Earth asteroids, and much more, the camera for the upcoming Vera Rubin Observatory is now complete. This is the world’s ...
Getting an affordable smart telescope, like the Dwarf Mini or Seestar S30, is easier and more rewarding than I thought.