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The activity of photographing and imaging the objects in the sky has an illustrious but very short history. For centuries after the invention of the telescope astronomers relied upon their eyes to record astronomical details, with wildly varying results.
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Pedro Re (2009) History of astrophotography timeline. http://www.astrosurf.com/re/history_astrophotography_timeline.pdf
Royal Astronomical Society (2012) The history of astronomical imaging (specialist discussion meeting, January 2012)
Trow A (2006) Photography was Hijacked by astronomers. Astronomy Now Magazine (March 2006)
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Griffiths, M. (2015). A Brief History of Astronomical Imaging. In: Choosing and Using Astronomical Filters. The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1044-1_1
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