Word Meanings - ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.

Related words: (words related to ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY)

• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• PHOTOGRAPHY
  1. The science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like. 2. The art or process of producing pictures by this action of light. Note: The well-focused optical image
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• STARSHOOT
  See NOSTOC
• STARSHINE
  The light of the stars. The starshine lights upon our heads. R. L. Stevenson.
• STARSTONE
  Asteriated sapphire.
• LITHOPHOTOGRAPHY
  See PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• CHROMOPHOTOGRAPHY
  The art of producing photographs in colors.
• MISAPPLICATION
  A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.
• MICROPHOTOGRAPHY
  The art of making microphotographs.
• PREDELINEATION
  Previous delineation.
• ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY
  The application of photography to the delineation of the sun, moon, and stars.
• INAPPLICATION
  Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence; indolence.
• TELEPHOTOGRAPHY
  1. The photography of distant objects in more enlarged form than is possible by the ordinary means, usually by a camera provided with a telephoto lens or mounted in place of the eyepiece of a telescope, so that the real or a magnified image falls