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Astrophotographers
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Astrophotography is photography of the night sky and of objects in space. This guide covers nightscapes, planetary and deep-sky work, its history from John William Draper’s Moon of 1840 to David Malin, and the basic techniques.
Damian Peach (born 1978) is a British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He is known around the world for detailed photographs of the planets, made with telescopes on the ground.
Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 1969) is an astrophotographer from Murcia, Spain, who lives and works in California. He is known for deep, wide views of nebulae, galaxies and faint clouds of dust.
Jerry Lodriguss (born in the 1950s) is an American astrophotographer, author and former sports photographer. For more than twenty years he photographed sports for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
David Malin (born 1941) is a British-Australian astronomer and photographer. At the Anglo-Australian Observatory he invented new ways to pull faint detail and true color out of photographic plates.
Thierry Legault (born 1962) is a French amateur astronomer and astrophotographer. He is known for photographs of the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle and the Hubble Space Telescope crossing the Sun.