Astrograph

Rarity: Uncommon

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

An astrograph (or astrographic camera) is a telescope designed for the sole purpose of astrophotography. Astrographs are mostly used in wide-field astronomical surveys of the sky and for detection of objects such as asteroids, meteors, and comets.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Astrograph”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Taken by Pretzelpaws with a Casio Exilim EX-Z750 camera. Cropped 8/16/05 using the GIMP., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.