astrophotographer
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- noun
- /ˌæstroʊfəˈtɒɡrəfər/
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astrofotógrafo
- The astrophotographer set up his camera on the mountain to photograph the night sky filled with stars.
- amateur astrophotographers
- astrophotographers capture
- many astrophotographers
Examples
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It took much of the night, but astrophotographer Peter Greig has now given this angel a halo in the form of star trails.
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When a comet is dim, astrophotographers can compensate with longer exposures and faster film.
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Few were serious astrophotographers, though nearly all tried to take a few pictures.
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Albert David Dyak is an astrophotographer in Israel who has amassed quite some equipment to point at the sky.
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If you are a nature photographer or astrophotographer, as I am, and you really want to capture some nice magic hour "light," then Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is where you want to be.
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It's actually a combination of photographs, snapped every tenth of a second by master astrophotographer Thierry Legault.
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Luke Dodd is an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer who lives in the town of Rochedale, Queensland, Australia.
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Astrophotographer Gary Emerson captured the fury of the great 1966 Leonid meteor storm, the most spectacular storm of the 20th century.
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French astrophotographer Thierry Legault captured this view of the Hubble Space Telescope passing over the sun's disk during this week's transit of Venus.
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Jack Newton is an astrophotographer whose work has appeared frequently in astronomical magazines and in several books published by Cambridge University Press, including the critically praised Cambridge Guide to Amateur Astronomy, which he wrote with Phil Teece.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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A person who takes pictures with a camera, often as a job
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A person or machine that makes pictures for science
Surface Forms
Morphology
astrophotographer = photographer (transparent) = astro + photo + graph + er
The word is transparently formed by adding astro- to photographer to mean a photographer of astronomical objects.
Etymology
Astrophotographer starts with astro meaning 'star', like in astronomy, and has photo meaning 'light' from photograph, which is a 'picture' made with light. So an astrophotographer is a person who takes pictures of stars, planets, and other objects in space.