| Image | Full Name | Born | Died | Nationality | Fame | Details |
 | Amédée Mouchez | 24th August 1821; Madrid, Spain | 29th June 1892;Wissous, Seine-et-Oise, France | France | Carte du Ciel, an ill fated photographic atlas of the heavens. It showed however the importance of photography in surveying the heavens and gaining valuable astrophysical and astrometric data. | More... |
 | Andrew Ainslie Common | 7th August 1841; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom | 2nd June 1903; Ealing, London, United Kingdom. | England | A beautiful and detailed Orion Nebula Photograph of 1883. Importance of stable telescopic mount and need for accurate motor drive in Asrophotography. | More... |
 | Angelo Secchi | 29th June 1818; Regio Emilia, Italy. | 26th February 1878; Rome, Italy. | Italy | Used Photography to capture the Spectra of Stars. He also took some of the earliest pictures of Solar Eclipses in 1851. Introduced first system of Stellar Classification based on a Star's Spectra. | More... |
 | Armand Hippolyte Fizeau | 23rd September 1819; Paris, France. | 18th September 1896; Venteuil, Marne, France | France | Early Daguerrotypes of Sun with Jean Foucault in 1844. Developed with Foucault new method to determine Speed of Light. In 1848 discovered Doppler Effect with Electromagnetic Waves; Doppler discovered the effect with Sound Waves in 1842. | More... |
 | Bernhard Schmidt | 30th March 1879; Naisaar, Tallinn, Estonia. | 1st December 1935; Hamburg, Germany. | Estonia | Invention in 1930 of a telescope (Schmidt Telescope) which corrected for spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making it possible to construct very large, wide angled cameras for astronomical research. | More... |
 | Charles Dillon Perrine | 28th July 1867; Steubenville, Ohio, USA | 21st June 1951; Cordoba, Argentina. | Argentina | Assistant to James Edward Keeler at Lick Observatory; after Keeler's premature death in 1900, Perrine continued his programme of Deep Space Astrophotography. | More... |
 | David Gill | 12th June 1843; Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom. | 24th January 1914; London, England, United Kingdom. | Scotland | Cape Photographic Durchmusterung (1896-1900). Active participant in the Carte du Ciel project with Amedee Mouchez and the Henry brothers, Paul and Prosper. | More... |
 | Edward Emerson Barnard | 16th December 1857, Nashville, Tennessee | 6th February 1923,Williams Bay, Wisconsin | USA | Leading Pioneer of long guided exposure wide field Astrophotography. Photographs of Milky Way, Catalogue of Dark Nebula, Discovery of Barnard's Star. | More... |
 | Edwin Hubble | 29th November 1889; Marshfield, Missouri, United States. | 28th September 1953; San Marino, California, United States. | USA | Best known for the Space Telescope named after him. First Measured Distances of Galaxies. Discovered that amount of Red Shift in a Galaxy's spectrum increased in proportion to its Distance, this became known as Hubble's Law. | More... |
 | Frederick Scott Archer | 1813; Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, England | 2nd May 1857; London, England | England | Inventor of the Wet Collodion Photographic Process in 1851. | More... |
 | George Phillips Bond | 20th May, 1825; Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | 17th February, 1865; Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. | USA | Son of William Cranch Bond. First Image of Double Star Zeta Ursa Majoris - Mizar & Alcor in 1857. | More... |
 | George Willis Ritchey | 31st December 1864; Tuppers Plains, Ohio, USA. | 4th November 1945; Azusa, California, USA | USA | Designed new type of Cassegrain Reflecting telescope with Henri Chretien, now known as the Ritchey-Chretien Telescope system, which provided wider fields of view with greater definition. | More... |
 | Henri Jacques Chretien | 1st February 1879; Paris, France. | 6th February 1956; Washington, United States. | France | Co-inventor of Ritchey-Chretien telescope with George Willis Ritchey, revised design of the Cassegrain Telescope, much used by astro-imagers, providing wider fields of view with greater definition. | More... |
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