Added 1 new A* page:A friend sent me a link to the astrophotography web site of Thierry Legault, who takes some pretty spectacular space-related pictures. For instance, some amazing shots of polar aurorae over Norway (make sure you get down to the landscape shots at the bottom too, those are quite nice), and photos and even video--from Earth--of the International Space Station docking with the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2011, and then the two of them crossing in front of the Sun, looking a bit like little bees on a gigantic honeycomb.
Also he's prrrrrrobably no relation to the Thierry in A*, which is good considering what will go on next episode. >_>
By the way, Wikipedia's astrophotography page will fill you in a bit on the field's history and techniques, along with a lot of other cool photos, including oldies like the first photo of a solar eclipse (Berkowski, Prussia, 1851):
image by Berkowski (first name unknown) (source)
That was a photo using the original photographic daguerreotype process--a copper plate with a silver face, made light sensitive by iodine fumes, exposed via a camera obscura, then developed with mercury fumes and fixed in a salt solution. Its inventor, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, had made the first attempt at an astronomical photo in 1839, shooting at the Moon, but the telescope he was using didn't track accurately enough and it just came out as "a fuzzy spot."
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