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The earliest known surviving photograph, 1826-1827
Preface
About the authors
1. The birth and evolution of astrophotography: The astrophotography pioneers; The telescopic leap; Film developments; Photoelectronics; Pixels in space; Super-sized telescopes; Astrophotography for the masses; The Hubble paradigm shift; Seeing the invisible; Imaging with radio waves; Seeing infrared; Beyond the blue; Going there
2. A series of firsts, from daguerreotypes to dry plates: The first daguerreotype of the moon and the birth of astrophotography; Capturing sunlight; Reaching for the stars; Moving targets: the first comet photographs; Coronal light: the first daguerreotype of a solar eclipse; Beyond the sun and moon: the first detailed images of Saturn and Jupiter; Measuring the sky: the birth of photographic astrometry; Dividing light: the birth of photographic spectroscopy; Our backyard star: exploring the surface of the sun; Variable stars and the prelude to modern cosmology; The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and the life of stars
3. The photographic exploration of deep space and the realm of the nebulae: Beyond the visual: the deep space era begins; Looking south: The Magellanic Clouds and southern sky photography; The reflecting telescope and the pursuit of spiral nebulae; The further refinement of deep space photography; Probing deeper into the unknown: nebulae everywhere; A passion for capturing the sky; Dark clouds, star fields, and the exploration of the Milky Way; The large light buckets: deep space photography passes to the professionals; Measuring the universe: Cepheids, Edwin Hubble, and the standard candle; The expanding universe: a new paradigm of cosmology; The invention of the Schmidt camera and the birth of deep sky surveys
4. The universe in color and the transition to electronic imaging: The birth of color astrophotography: the colors of Andromeda; The hues of heaven; David Malin and three-color additive photography; Rediscovering the Horsehead; Of comets and tails: the spectacle of Hale-Bopp; Moving on from film: the arrival of electronic imaging; The CCD arrives: extraordinary imaging from ordinary places; An unexpected discovery; The Photopic Sky Survey; Fossils from an earlier universe; Einstein's Cross (a cosmic mirage)
5. The Hubble Telescope and the era of satellite observatories: The plasma jet of M87; Proplyds of M42; The Eta Carinae Homunculus; The Horsehead Nebula in infrared light; M16: The pillars of creation; The Antennae: snapshot of a cosmic collision; The Crab Supernova remnant; The anomalous arms of M106; Supernova 1987A; NGC 604: close up of an extragalactic stellar nursery; R136: The core cluster of 30 Doradus; M51: Lord Rosse's Spiral Nebula; Starburst Galaxy M82 and its superwind; The Trifid Nebula; The Sombrero Galaxy; The Helix Nebula; The Cat's Eye Nebula; Light echoes from V838 Monocerotis; The fate of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9; NGC 1999; The Hubble Deep Field; IC 349: Barnard's Merope Nebula; Fomalhaut b; M100 Cepheids: a new cosmic yardstick; Sh2-106: a celestial snow angel; The Hubble Frontier Field and Abell 2744; Mystic Mountain: HH 901 and HH 902; The Hourglass Nebula; Saturn's aurora; M101: a perfect pinwheel; NGC 3603: starburst in the Carina Arm; 100 million stars in Andromeda
6. The multiwavelength universe: Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS); COBE: the earliest light; WMAP: cosmology becomes a precision science; Planck: further refining the primordial universe; The Helix in infrared light (Spitzer); Chandra's Crab: a cosmic generator; The radio lobes and galactic jets of Centaurus A; The bullet cluster and the detection of dark matter; The ultraviolet sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory; M31 in infrared: clues to the story of Andromeda; The Galactic Center across the spectrum; The Tycho supernova remnant (SN1572); Cassiopeia A: a cosmic wreckage; Hercules A in radio light; The Gamma ray universe; Mira's tail in ultraviolet light
7. Photographing worlds explored by manned and robotic spacecraft: The hellish surface of the planet Venus; The heavily cratered face of Mars; Vega 1 at Comet Halley; Earthrise above the moon's shoulder; The first walk in space; Boots on the lunar soil; A precise moon landing; The fateful voyage of Apollo 13; Illuminating the dark side of the moon; The great red spot of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn; The methane lakes of Saturn's moon Titan; The fountains of Enceladus; Capturing solar prominences without an eclipse; The face on Mars; Martian blueberries; The icy subsurface of Mars; Portrait of planet Earth
Image sources.
Preface
About the authors
1. The birth and evolution of astrophotography: The astrophotography pioneers; The telescopic leap; Film developments; Photoelectronics; Pixels in space; Super-sized telescopes; Astrophotography for the masses; The Hubble paradigm shift; Seeing the invisible; Imaging with radio waves; Seeing infrared; Beyond the blue; Going there
2. A series of firsts, from daguerreotypes to dry plates: The first daguerreotype of the moon and the birth of astrophotography; Capturing sunlight; Reaching for the stars; Moving targets: the first comet photographs; Coronal light: the first daguerreotype of a solar eclipse; Beyond the sun and moon: the first detailed images of Saturn and Jupiter; Measuring the sky: the birth of photographic astrometry; Dividing light: the birth of photographic spectroscopy; Our backyard star: exploring the surface of the sun; Variable stars and the prelude to modern cosmology; The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and the life of stars
3. The photographic exploration of deep space and the realm of the nebulae: Beyond the visual: the deep space era begins; Looking south: The Magellanic Clouds and southern sky photography; The reflecting telescope and the pursuit of spiral nebulae; The further refinement of deep space photography; Probing deeper into the unknown: nebulae everywhere; A passion for capturing the sky; Dark clouds, star fields, and the exploration of the Milky Way; The large light buckets: deep space photography passes to the professionals; Measuring the universe: Cepheids, Edwin Hubble, and the standard candle; The expanding universe: a new paradigm of cosmology; The invention of the Schmidt camera and the birth of deep sky surveys
4. The universe in color and the transition to electronic imaging: The birth of color astrophotography: the colors of Andromeda; The hues of heaven; David Malin and three-color additive photography; Rediscovering the Horsehead; Of comets and tails: the spectacle of Hale-Bopp; Moving on from film: the arrival of electronic imaging; The CCD arrives: extraordinary imaging from ordinary places; An unexpected discovery; The Photopic Sky Survey; Fossils from an earlier universe; Einstein's Cross (a cosmic mirage)
5. The Hubble Telescope and the era of satellite observatories: The plasma jet of M87; Proplyds of M42; The Eta Carinae Homunculus; The Horsehead Nebula in infrared light; M16: The pillars of creation; The Antennae: snapshot of a cosmic collision; The Crab Supernova remnant; The anomalous arms of M106; Supernova 1987A; NGC 604: close up of an extragalactic stellar nursery; R136: The core cluster of 30 Doradus; M51: Lord Rosse's Spiral Nebula; Starburst Galaxy M82 and its superwind; The Trifid Nebula; The Sombrero Galaxy; The Helix Nebula; The Cat's Eye Nebula; Light echoes from V838 Monocerotis; The fate of Comet Shoemaker-Levy-9; NGC 1999; The Hubble Deep Field; IC 349: Barnard's Merope Nebula; Fomalhaut b; M100 Cepheids: a new cosmic yardstick; Sh2-106: a celestial snow angel; The Hubble Frontier Field and Abell 2744; Mystic Mountain: HH 901 and HH 902; The Hourglass Nebula; Saturn's aurora; M101: a perfect pinwheel; NGC 3603: starburst in the Carina Arm; 100 million stars in Andromeda
6. The multiwavelength universe: Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS); COBE: the earliest light; WMAP: cosmology becomes a precision science; Planck: further refining the primordial universe; The Helix in infrared light (Spitzer); Chandra's Crab: a cosmic generator; The radio lobes and galactic jets of Centaurus A; The bullet cluster and the detection of dark matter; The ultraviolet sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory; M31 in infrared: clues to the story of Andromeda; The Galactic Center across the spectrum; The Tycho supernova remnant (SN1572); Cassiopeia A: a cosmic wreckage; Hercules A in radio light; The Gamma ray universe; Mira's tail in ultraviolet light
7. Photographing worlds explored by manned and robotic spacecraft: The hellish surface of the planet Venus; The heavily cratered face of Mars; Vega 1 at Comet Halley; Earthrise above the moon's shoulder; The first walk in space; Boots on the lunar soil; A precise moon landing; The fateful voyage of Apollo 13; Illuminating the dark side of the moon; The great red spot of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn; The methane lakes of Saturn's moon Titan; The fountains of Enceladus; Capturing solar prominences without an eclipse; The face on Mars; Martian blueberries; The icy subsurface of Mars; Portrait of planet Earth
Image sources.