astrophotographn.
/ˌastrə(ʊ)ˈfəʊtəɡrɑːf/, /ˌastrə(ʊ)ˈfəʊtəɡraf/, U.S. /ˌæstroʊˈfoʊdəˌɡræf/ A photograph of a celestial object or of the night sky; an astronomical photograph.
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1857 Photogr. Notes 15 Nov. 417/1 We cannot reasonably expect to gather any information from an examination of an astro-photograph, which might not be better obtained by direct vision through the telescope.
1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Dec. vi/2 A vision of the exposed night sky—shown in over 30 astrophotographs.
1988 T. Ferris Coming of Age in Milky Way (1989) i. ix. 166 Jeans..managed to coax his model into generating spiral arms like those seen in the astrophotographs.
2009 R. Gendler Capturing Stars xxiii. 116 He took his first hand-guided piggyback astrophotographs in 1980 at the age of thirteen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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