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astrophotography
thumb|upright=1.15|An image of Orion's Belt composited from digitized black-and-white photographic plates recorded through red and blue astronomical filters, with a computer synthesized green channel. The plates were taken using the [[Samuel Oschin Telescope between 1987 and 1991.]]
first light
first use of a new instrument to take an astronomical image after it has been constructed
star trail
trail left by star as the Earth rotates during long exposure photograph
digiscoping
thumb|right|Spotting scope with a digital camera mounted afocally using an adapter. thumbnail|Digiscoping waterfowl thumb|Typical uncropped digiscope image; the spotting scope has 20x magnification. Camera focal length is 24 mm; distance to the subject is about 90 meters.
solarigraphy
thumb|upright=1.2|Solarigraph with the sun paths between July 2018 and May 2019 in a street at Valladolid, Spain Solarigraphy is a concept and a photographic practice based on the observation of the sun path in the sky (different in each place on the Earth) and its effect on the landscape, captured by a specific procedure that combines pinhole photography and digital processing. Invented around 2000, solarigraphy (also known as solargraphy) uses photographic paper without chemical processing, a pinhole camera and a scanner to create images that catch the daily journey of the sun along the sky
dark-frame subtraction
removal of dark current and fixed-pattern noise in long-exposure photography
reciprocity
in photography, the inverse relationship between the intensity and duration of light that determines the reaction of light-sensitive material
astronomical filter
telescope accessory used to improve details of viewed objects
space selfie
self-portrait photo taken in outer space
V-2 No. 13
modified V-2 rocket
diffraction spike
lines radiating from bright light sources in photographs
Flat-field correction
digital imaging calibration technique
LRGB
thumb|LRGB Photo of the Eagle Nebula. LRGB, short for Luminance, Red, Green and Blue, is a photographic technique used in amateur astronomy for producing good quality color photographs by combining a high-quality black-and-white image with a lower-quality color image.thumb|left|Deep View of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds captured using the LRGB method.In astrophotography, it is easier and cheaper to obtain good quality, high signal-to-noise ratio images in black and white. The LRGB method is used to work around this to get good color images. The color (chrominance) information from the