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We present the proceedings from the workshop entitled Scientific Detectors for Astronomy 2005, a weeklong meeting held in Taormina, Sicily during 19-25 June 2005. This was the sixth workshop of this series, and the fourth with hardcover proceedings. By all measures, this workshop surpassed the previous meetings. The primary purpose of any technical meeting is the exchange of scientific and engineering information. The meeting was attended by 127 astronomers, scientists and engineers from 21 countries spread across every continent, with representation of all major manufacturers and 36 astronomical observatories. A total of 94 oral and poster papers were presented, of which 87 are contained in these proceedings | Ạs ASTROPHYSICS AND S _ SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY SCIENTIFIC DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY 2005 JENNA E. BELET1C JAMES w. BELET1C PAOLA AMICO Editors Springer SCIENTIFIC DETECTORS FOR ASTRONOMY 2005 ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 336 EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman . BURTON National Radio Astronomy Observatory Charlottesville Virginia . bburton@ University of Leiden The Netherlands burton@ Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS University of Nijmegen The Netherlands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL University of Amsterdam The Netherlands H. VAN DER LAAN University of Utrecht The Netherlands MEMBERS F. BERTOLA University of Padua Italy J. P. CASSINELLI University of Wisconsin Madison . C. J. CESARSKY European Southern Observatory Garching bei Munchen Germany O. ENGVOLD University of Oslo Norway A. HECK Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory France R. McCRAY University of Colorado Boulder . P. G. MURDIN Institute of Astronomy Cambridge . F. PACINI Istituto Astronomia Arcetri Firenze Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN Raman Research Institute Bangalore India K. SATO School of Science The University of Tokyo Japan F. H. SHU National Tsing Hua University Taiwan B. V. SOMOV Astronomical Institute Moscow State University Russia R. A. SUNYAEV Space Research Institute Moscow Russia Y. TANAKA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Kanagawa Japan S. TREMAINE Princeton University . N. O. WEISS University of Cambridge .