This discussion will be followed with a color slide presentation highlighting the results obtained from my backyard skies in Arizona with these techniques. Chris Schur is an Engineer living in Payson, Arizona. He enjoys pushing the frontiers of astrophotography to their limits in recording faint and obscure nebulosities in the Milky Way. His images have been published both nationally and internationally in magazines, books and journals for over a decade. He is also an accomplished telescope maker, and make most of my own telescopes and equipment.
Infrared astronomy is now in an exciting and vibrant period of growth.
Much of this growth has been made possible by the dramatic increases in the size and sensitivity of infrared detector arrays. The sensitivity of observations in the infrared spectral region can be increased by orders of magnitude using cooled space-based telescopes. A short description of the modern infrared detector arrays that are used in space-based astronomical telescopes will be presented. This will be followed by a survey of recent and planned space-based infrared astronomy missions emphasizing the detectors. He has worked on many aspects of infrared detectors, particularly concentrating on very sensitive long-wavelength doped silicon detectors for both astronomical and military applications.