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It is often easy to forget the pioneers of astrophotography that have made the images on this site possible. Nowadays we take the cameras, telescopes and software available to us for granted, without much thought as to how they came about or who was responsible. If you have a problem with your equipment, or don’t know how to do something, what do you do; you ask a friend, another member of your astronomy club, contact the manufacturer, or search the internet. You can find out, it is easy. Can you imagine what it was like when nobody knew how to take a picture of an astronomical object, because it hadn’t been done before? You had No Internet, No GOTO scope, No CCD camera, No Adaptive Optics, No MAXIM DL, No PHOTOSHOP and No ArtdeCiel. You were alone – a Pioneer! ArtdeCiel has on online database of these pioneers, which can be searched by Name, Nationality and Achievement. For each of the pioneers, information is provided on their Birth, Death, Nationality and Achievement, as well as thumbnail image of them. A link to further details is also provided; here you can find a short biography and a larger image of the pioneer.   Isaac Roberts Louis Daguerre Warren De La Rue   Click Here For Gallery   (All Pioneers) Amédée Mouchez Andrew Ainslie Common Angelo Secchi Armand Hippolyte Fizeau Bernhard Schmidt Charles Dillon Perrine David Gill Edward Emerson Barnard Edwin Hubble Frederick Scott Archer George Phillips Bond George Willis Ritchey Henri Jacques Chretien Henry Brothers Henry Draper Hermann Carl Vogel Isaac Roberts James Clerk Maxwell James Edward Keeler Jean Bernhard Foucault John Adams Whipple John Herschel John William Draper Joseph Bancroft Reade Joseph Nicephore Niepce Julius Scheiner Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Louis Jacques Daguerre Milton Lasell Humason Moritz Loewy Paul Henry Pierre Henri Puiseux Pierre Jules Janssen Prosper Henry Richard Leach Maddox Thomas Wedgwood Warren de La Rue William Cranch Bond William Edward Wilson William Henry Fox Talbot William Henry Pickering William Huggins William Parsons Williamina Stevens Fleming (All Nationalities) Argentina Channel Islands England Estonia France Germany Ireland Italy Scotland USA Wales (All Claims to Fame) Calotype Photographic Process Cape Photographic Durchmusterung Carte du Ciel Project Concept of Negative and Positive Images Daguerrotype Photographic Process Discovery of Colour Photography First Measurements of Distances of Galaxies First Photograph of a Star First Photograph of a Star's Spectrum First Photograph of a Total Solar Eclipse First Photograph of Double Star First Photograph of Moon First Purpose Built Astrophotography Telescope Gelatin Negative Plates Horsehead Nebula Importance of Accurate Motor Drive Importance of Long Exposures Importance of Stable Mount Introduced Term 'Photography' Kew Photoheliograph Photographic Atlas of Moon Photographic Atlas of Sun Photographic Processes Photographic Sky Surveys Pioneer of Deep Space Astrophotography Pioneer of Lunar Astrophotography Pioneer of Metal Coated Glass Mirrors Pioneer of Photography Pioneer of Planetary Astrophotography Pioneer of Solar Astrophotography Pioneer of Spectroscopic Astrophotography Pioneer of Telescope Design         Image Full Name Born Died Nationality Fame Details Amédée Mouchez 24th August 1821; Madrid, Spain 29th June 1892;Wissous, Seine-et-Oise, France France Carte 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 Common 7th August 1841; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom 2nd June 1903; Ealing, London, United Kingdom. England A beautiful and detailed Orion Nebula Photograph of 1883. Importance of stable telescopic mount and need for accurate motor drive in Asrophotography. More... Angelo Secchi 29th June 1818; Regio Emilia, Italy. 26th February 1878; Rome, Italy. Italy Used 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 Fizeau 23rd September 1819; Paris, France. 18th September 1896; Venteuil, Marne, France France Early 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 Schmidt 30th March 1879; Naisaar, Tallinn, Estonia. 1st December 1935; Hamburg, Germany. Estonia Invention 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 Perrine 28th July 1867; Steubenville, Ohio, USA 21st June 1951; Cordoba, Argentina. Argentina Assistant to James Edward Keeler at Lick Observatory; after Keeler's premature death in 1900, Perrine continued his programme of Deep Space Astrophotography. More... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Site Map ©ArtdeCiel.com 2009