According to CEFCA, JPCam is the definitive scientific instrument of the OAJ JST/T250 telescope, designed to perform large sky surveys. JPCam is the second largest astronomical camera in the world, ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- 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 ...

Astronomers in California are building the largest digital camera in the world. It will go on a giant telescope taking shape in Chile called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. LSST is different from ...

Charge-coupled device (CCD) chips are solid state devices that contributes a major role in digital imaging, and ultraviolet imaging. CCD chips are commonly known as image sensors. Each cell of a CCD ...

Last of six meter-scale optical components delivered to SLAC, with CCD camera’s shipment to Chile expected next summer. The last of the enormous optical components for what will become the world’s ...

A prolific NASA space telescope has closed its camera eye for now due to a power issue that has stalled the observatory's science work. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which has studied the X-ray ...

In December 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope spent 10 consecutive days staring at one small region of the sky. With more than 100 hours of exposure time and 342 separate exposures, the telescope ...

The PlaneWave CDK17 telescope is presented as an instrument achieving immediate, perfect performance upon deployment, maintaining optical collimation and integrity despite transport and changes in ...

Spectral Instruments Inc. has been building custom scientific cameras for imaging objects as small as a neutron and as large as a galaxy cluster since 1993 in labs west of the Santa Cruz River near ...

A grant of almost $130,000 to Calvin from the National Science Foundation will help pay for two new 16-inch telescopes for the school's astronomy program: one to be located at Calvin and one to be ...

Look out, aliens, because human scientists are about to start snapping some photos of you. The Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Lab has finished construction on the 3.2-gigapixel sensor ...