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Amédée Mouchez24th August 1821; Madrid, Spain29th June 1892;Wissous, Seine-et-Oise, FranceFranceCarte du Ciel, an ill fated photographic atlas of the heavens. It showed however the importance of photography in surveying the heavens and gaining valuable astrophysical and astrometric data.More...
Andrew Ainslie Common7th August 1841; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom2nd June 1903; Ealing, London, United Kingdom.EnglandA beautiful and detailed Orion Nebula Photograph of 1883. Importance of stable telescopic mount and need for accurate motor drive in Asrophotography.More...
Angelo Secchi29th June 1818; Regio Emilia, Italy.26th February 1878; Rome, Italy.ItalyUsed Photography to capture the Spectra of Stars. He also took some of the earliest pictures of Solar Eclipses in 1851. Introduced first system of Stellar Classification based on a Star's Spectra.More...
Armand Hippolyte Fizeau23rd September 1819; Paris, France.18th September 1896; Venteuil, Marne, FranceFranceEarly Daguerrotypes of Sun with Jean Foucault in 1844. Developed with Foucault new method to determine Speed of Light. In 1848 discovered Doppler Effect with Electromagnetic Waves; Doppler discovered the effect with Sound Waves in 1842.More...
Bernhard Schmidt30th March 1879; Naisaar, Tallinn, Estonia.1st December 1935; Hamburg, Germany.EstoniaInvention in 1930 of a telescope (Schmidt Telescope) which corrected for spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making it possible to construct very large, wide angled cameras for astronomical research.More...
Charles Dillon Perrine28th July 1867; Steubenville, Ohio, USA21st June 1951; Cordoba, Argentina.ArgentinaAssistant to James Edward Keeler at Lick Observatory; after Keeler's premature death in 1900, Perrine continued his programme of Deep Space Astrophotography.More...
David Gill12th June 1843; Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom.24th January 1914; London, England, United Kingdom.ScotlandCape Photographic Durchmusterung (1896-1900). Active participant in the Carte du Ciel project with Amedee Mouchez and the Henry brothers, Paul and Prosper.More...
Edward Emerson Barnard16th December 1857, Nashville, Tennessee6th February 1923,Williams Bay, WisconsinUSALeading Pioneer of long guided exposure wide field Astrophotography. Photographs of Milky Way, Catalogue of Dark Nebula, Discovery of Barnard's Star.More...
Edwin Hubble29th November 1889; Marshfield, Missouri, United States.28th September 1953; San Marino, California, United States.USABest known for the Space Telescope named after him. First Measured Distances of Galaxies. Discovered that amount of Red Shift in a Galaxy's spectrum increased in proportion to its Distance, this became known as Hubble's Law.More...
Frederick Scott Archer1813; Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England2nd May 1857; London, EnglandEnglandInventor of the Wet Collodion Photographic Process in 1851.More...
George Phillips Bond20th May, 1825; Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.17th February, 1865; Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.USASon of William Cranch Bond. First Image of Double Star Zeta Ursa Majoris - Mizar & Alcor in 1857.More...
George Willis Ritchey31st December 1864; Tuppers Plains, Ohio, USA.4th November 1945; Azusa, California, USAUSADesigned new type of Cassegrain Reflecting telescope with Henri Chretien, now known as the Ritchey-Chretien Telescope system, which provided wider fields of view with greater definition.More...
Henri Jacques Chretien1st February 1879; Paris, France.6th February 1956; Washington, United States.FranceCo-inventor of Ritchey-Chretien telescope with George Willis Ritchey, revised design of the Cassegrain Telescope, much used by astro-imagers, providing wider fields of view with greater definition.More...
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