Astroimager Adam Block shows readers how to set up field-of-view indicators based on their telescope and CCD camera. Field of view (FoV) indicators are fundamental tools for imagers. They can show you ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics went, in part, to the inventors of the charge-coupled device George Smith and Willard Boyle this week. Their innovation, sketched out in 1969, is now the imager in ...

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 ...

The Celestron Nightscape CCD Camera is a oneshot color imaging device featuring a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor. The camera incorporates thermoelectric cooling and an adjustable fan for temperature ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

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

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- 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 ...