Astrophotography

Astrophotography History

  • Telescope Invented in Netherlands

    Telescope Invented in Netherlands

    Three different spyglass makers are suspected to have invented the telescope.
  • Galileo and Astrophotography

    Galileo and Astrophotography

    Galileo designed his own telescope and many consider that he was what started astrophotography.
  • View from Window

    View from Window

    Nicéphore Niepce captured the first photograph.
  • The Moon Immortalized

    The Moon Immortalized

    G.A. Majocchi captured a picture of a partial solar eclipse
  • The Sun Revealed

    The Sun Revealed

    Two astronomers, Hippolyte Louis Fizeau and Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, would take pictures of the sun. One still exists today.
  • Vega Photographed

    Vega Photographed

    John Adams Whipple and William Cranch Bond took a photo of a star.
  • The Sun and Mizar

    The Sun and Mizar

    John Bancroft Reade took a wet plate collodion photograph of the sun. Showing the photosphere and the star, Mizar.
  • Venus's Journey Across the Sun

    Venus's Journey Across the Sun

    The photographic revolver was invented by Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen and he captured the photograph of Venus traveling across the sun.
  • The First Nebula Captured

    The First Nebula Captured

    Henry Draper captures the nebula Orion in a photograph.
  • First Successful Comet Photos

    First Successful Comet Photos

    Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen took the first successful photograph of a comet.
  • First Planetary Bodies Photographed

    First Planetary Bodies Photographed

    The Henry Brothers took the first photos of Jupiter and Saturn in 1885 and 1886
  • Cepheid Variables

    Cepheid Variables

    Edwin Hubble used images of the Cepheid Variables to measure the distance from our galaxy to Andromeda galaxy.
  • Galactic Redshift

    Galactic Redshift

    Edwin Hubble identifies redshift degree of galaxies, showing the universe expansion.
  • Astrophotography Today

    Astrophotography Today

    The world of photography has changed, which allows astrophotography to grow with it. Allowing more detailed photos.