One day, while I was looking at the credits for an attractive image on AstroBin, I noticed the camera listed was "Player One." I wondered who that company was. As time went by, I saw similar credits ...

The next generation of instruments for ground-based telescopes took a leap forward with the development of a new ultra-fast camera that can take 1500 finely exposed images per second even when ...

SLAC scientist Stuart Marshall explains the mechanism of the pancake wrap, a device that’s part of the system designed to control the temperature of the camera and keep it cool. Photo by Ashwini ...

Rochester Institute of Technology professor Michael Richmond is a visiting professor for the fall term at the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for the Early Universe. He is teaching a graduate ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile unveiled its first images, a moment hailed as a milestone in astronomy. According to Space.com, the observatory's technology allows it to capture unprecedented ...

Montreal, September 29, 2009 – A team of Universite de Montreal researchers, led by physics PhD student Olivier Daigle, has developed the world’s most sensitive astronomical camera. Marketed by Photon ...

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 ...

It has taken nearly 20 years, but the massive digital camera for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been completed. Engineers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have put ...

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 ...

When installed in telescope in Chile, the 3,200 MP LSST Camera will probe dark matter and more. As the heart of the DOE and NDF-funded Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the 3,200 MP camera will observe the ...