Around here we love technology for its own sake. But we have to admit, most people are interested in applications–what can the technology do? Those people often have the best projects. After all, ...

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 ...

For whatever reason, Canon seemed more concerned with showing off its engineering prowess than finding a use for the giant 8-inch CMOS sensor it created last year. Fortunately, the super-powerful ...

Photographers who point their cameras at the night sky now have a new full-frame mirrorless model courtesy of Canon. The EOS Ra is a tweaked version of last year's EOS R, a 30-MP shooter with Dual ...

Deep in Antarctica, at the southernmost point on our planet, sits a 33-foot telescope designed for a single purpose: to make images of the oldest light in the universe. This light, known as the cosmic ...

While nearly everyone enjoys a good astrophoto, the precision with which the astrograph (the telescope taking the photograph) must follow the stars is not widely appreciated. To take a good astrophoto ...

Presentations about milestones in imaging — cameras on every street corner and new eyes on the heavens above — capped the proceedings of SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (DCS), held earlier this ...