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Three different spyglass makers are suspected to have invented the telescope. -
Galileo designed his own telescope and many consider that he was what started astrophotography. -
Nicéphore Niepce captured the first photograph. -
G.A. Majocchi captured a picture of a partial solar eclipse -
Two astronomers, Hippolyte Louis Fizeau and Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, would take pictures of the sun. One still exists today. -
John Adams Whipple and William Cranch Bond took a photo of a star. -
John Bancroft Reade took a wet plate collodion photograph of the sun. Showing the photosphere and the star, Mizar. -
The photographic revolver was invented by Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen and he captured the photograph of Venus traveling across the sun. -
Henry Draper captures the nebula Orion in a photograph. -
Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen took the first successful photograph of a comet. -
The Henry Brothers took the first photos of Jupiter and Saturn in 1885 and 1886 -
Edwin Hubble used images of the Cepheid Variables to measure the distance from our galaxy to Andromeda galaxy. -
Edwin Hubble identifies redshift degree of galaxies, showing the universe expansion. -
The world of photography has changed, which allows astrophotography to grow with it. Allowing more detailed photos.