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  2. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophotography

    Astrophotography is a popular hobby among photographers and amateur astronomers. Techniques ranges from basic film and digital cameras on tripods up to methods and equipment geared toward advanced imaging. Amateur astronomers and amateur telescope makers also use homemade equipment and modified devices.

  3. Amateur astronomy - Wikipedia

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    One branch of amateur astronomy, amateur astrophotography, involves the taking of photos of the night sky. Astrophotography has become more popular with the introduction of far easier to use equipment including, digital cameras, DSLR cameras and relatively sophisticated purpose built high quality CCD cameras and CMOS cameras.

  4. Star tracker - Wikipedia

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    Star tracker. The STARS real-time star tracking software operates on an image from EBEX 2012, a high-altitude balloon-borne cosmology experiment launched from Antarctica on 2012-12-29. A star tracker is an optical device that measures the positions of stars using photocells or a camera. [1] As the positions of many stars have been measured by ...

  5. Afocal photography - Wikipedia

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    Afocal setups with film and digital cameras are not the preferred system for astrophotography since astrophotographers have many ways of coupling a camera to an astronomical telescope, the simplest being prime focus (using no camera lens and allowing the image to fall directly onto the film, or image plane of a digital single-lens reflex camera ...

  6. Sloan Digital Sky Survey - Wikipedia

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    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States. The project began in 2000 and was named after the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which contributed significant funding.

  7. List of cameras on the International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    NASA astronaut Jeffrey N. Williams on Expedition 13, with various floating photography equipment in Zvezda module Image of the clouds and Moon in the distance, by a Kodak DCS760C An example of digital photography by Donald Pettit on Expedition 30. It is a long exposure photo showing star trails. Astronaut Jessica Meir undergoing photography ...

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