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  2. The best lenses for astrophotography in 2022: fast ... - AOL

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    We pick the best lenses for astrophotography fans shooting a starry night sky, to suit a range of cameras and budgets Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please ...

  3. Astrograph - Wikipedia

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    This is a modern amateur Newtonian astrograph, specifically designed for astrophotography. An astrograph (or astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography. Astrographs are mostly used in wide-field astronomical surveys of the sky and for detection of objects such as asteroids, meteors, and comets.

  4. Schmidt camera - Wikipedia

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    The spherical mirror used in this telescope was extremely accurate; if scaled up to the size of the Atlantic Ocean, bumps on its surface would be about 10 cm high. [16] The Kepler photometer, mounted on NASA's Kepler space telescope (2009–2018), is the largest Schmidt camera launched into space.

  5. List of space telescopes - Wikipedia

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    Positioning an optical telescope in space eliminates the distortions and limitations that hamper that ground-based optical telescopes (see Astronomical seeing), providing higher resolution images. Optical telescopes are used to look at planets, stars, galaxies, planetary nebulae and protoplanetary disks, amongst many other things. [150]

  6. Great refractor - Wikipedia

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    The telescope was placed by the astronomer James William Grant, and it had an 11-inch aperture (280mm) and a 16 feet (4.88m) focal length. [16] [17] At the 1861 International Exhibit, the size increased to showing a telescope with 21-inch objective lens. [18] The Buckingham or Walworth Common telescope's objective was manufactured by William ...

  7. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    The Hubble Space Telescope shortly after the STS-125 maintenance mission in 2009. The late 20th century saw advances in astronomical imaging take place in the form of new hardware, with the construction of giant multi-mirror and segmented mirror telescopes. It would also see the introduction of space-based telescopes, such as the Hubble Space ...

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