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 ...

A telescope at Palomar Observatory in California has been outfitted with a new camera known as QUEST designed and built by scientists at Indiana and Yale universities. QUEST is now scanning the ...

Many cameras other than astronomical CCDs now use CCD chips. Video camcorders and digital cameras are good examples. Most camcorders have CCDs with arrays of a few hundred pixels on a side.

These new low-noise cameras are mounted on the viewfinder of a regular telescope rig (see pics below), and can take pictures with extremely long exposure times (up to 60 minutes) or movies with ...

A CCD -- a larger and more sensitive version of the imaging technology found in everyday digital cameras -- will enable the astronomers to determine the ages of these stars and unravel the secrets ...

Using a virtual-phase, thermoelectrically cooled CCD, a relatively inexpensive but very sensitive slow-scan camera has been built. The primary purpose is for field acquisition and guiding with the ...

New high-res CCD cameras from SBIG offer sensitivity and flexibility for astrophotography and spectography.

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 ...

CCD imagers have advantages over visual observers. Even under light-polluted skies, a small telescope with virtually any digital-imaging device will reveal details not attainable visually.

Hubble's CCD cameras don't measure the color of the incoming light directly. But the telescope does have various filters that can be applied to let in only a specific wavelength range, or color ...