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Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Daguerre is credited with being the first to attempt astrpnomical photography. He is also the inventor of the daguerreotype. He attempted to photograph the moon in 1839, he was also known for his other photography. -
John William Draper
in 1840 John Draper obtains the first successful daguerreotype of
the moon using a 13 cm reflector with a long focal length. -
Hippolyte Fizeau & Leon Foucault
French physicists who spent years using their phptographic expertise attempting to photograph the sun and moon. the two They took a series of Daguerreotype images of the Sun, which were the first to successfully capture it. -
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
Lewis succeeded in creating an 11.25-inch objective lens for his existing telescope suitable designed specifically for photographic use. It was the very first Astrograph to be invetnted. -
Photographic Revolver
John Henry Dallmeyer constructed Photographic Revolvers that were used by the five British expeditions to photograph the transit of Venus. Each expedition was equipped with a Dallmeyer photoheliographs that attactched to the revolvers. -
Sir William Huggins and his wife MargaretLindsay Huggins
Astronomical photography did not become a serious tool for research in science until the late 19th century, with the introduction of dry plate photography. The dry plate was first used by Sir Wiliam and Margaret in their work to record the spectra of astronomical objects. -
Wratten & Wainwright
A photographic supply and manufacturing company in the 1870s. They began the commercial production of ‘dry’ photographic plates in 1877. -
Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
In 1885 David Gill and Jacobus Cornelius Kapetyn began working on the CPD, whose goal was to obtain a sky survey of southern hemisphere stars down to about magnitude 10 for declinations. When completed, it would prove be the first sky survey to be successfully undertaken using photographic means. Gill was responsible for taking the photographs from the Cape of Good Hope Observatory and Kapetyn undertook the task of measuring the photographic plates. -
Spectroheliograph
In about 1890 George Ellery Hale invents the Spectroheliograph. It is an instrument used to obtain a photographic image of the Sun at a single wavelength of light - a monochromatic image. -
Jacobus Kapteyn
Kapetyn was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. He also discovered Kapteyn's Star. It had the highest proper motion of any star known until the discovery of Barnard's Star in 1916. -
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mountain WIlson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was completed in 1917. -
Samuel Oschin telescope
Since 1949 the Samuel Oschin Telescope has been quietly working to improve our understanding of the universe. It nightly scans the skies, returning discoveries that astound and amaze. Currently it operates as a robotic telescope. -
Hasselblad
Hasselblad cameras have played an integral part in the Space program, capturing the images that help us to understand our world and its surroundings. They were first used in the 1960s and are still being used. -
Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. It monitors and records everything about our earth and space -
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
It measures the most powerful radiation in the universe. Supermassive black holes, the collisions of neutron stars and some supernovae produce bursts of gamma rays that carry far more energy than anything possible on Earth.
