 Scheiner paid special attention to celestial photography and wrote "Die Spektralanalyse der Gestirne" (1890); "Lehrbuch der Photographie der Gestirne" (1897); "Strahlung und Temperatur der Sonne" (1899); "Der Bau des Weltalls" (1901); third edition (1909).In 1899 he began the publication of the "Photographische Himmelskarte; Zone +31° bis +40° Deklination".He is also credited with developing the first system for measuring the sensitivity of photographic emulsions in 1894, Scheinergrade, which also inspired the later DIN 4512 standard to measure film speeds.