Saturn has been a popular celestial body to photograph among The Imaging Source astronomy cameras’ users, and we have indeed seen many remarkable pictures of that planet here. Alan Friedman recently sent us one of his Saturn images which can be called a master piece.

In this picture, Alan marked three of Saturn’s satellites, namely Dione, Tethys, and Rhea.

More info on this picture is available at

http://www.avertedimagination.com/img_pages/saturn20090415.html

Thank you Alan!

French astronomy amateur , Laurent Langelez, took this ISS image on 28.96.09.

We have translated his email into English as below:

ISS passed above at 4:26 with magnitude of 3.4.

Kits: Barlow x 1.6 &  DMK 31AU03.AS
UV-IR Filters
254 mm Telescope and rear guide 80 mm

Gain of camera is set to 550, and exposure time is 1/1250s.

Processed 13 images to get this picture and applied 200% zoom with Registax5

It has been a while since we received deep sky images last time. Ralph Ford, based in Redondo Beach, CA, took the following Messier astronomical objects  with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera and sent them to us last month.

Messier 13

Messier 57

I took the enclosed images with a DMK 21AU04.AS camera mounted to a 16″ F/46 telescope.  The images were stacked and processed with RegiStax, each frame being a 4 second exposure.  While the field of view is only 6.5 X 4.9 seconds, the large aperture produces bright images with short exposures.

Thank you Ralph for the nice pictures and the  info on them!

Máximo Ruiz is a Spanish astronomy amateur who uses DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera for his astro-photography hobby. This monochrome Saturn image is another work from him:

We translated his email as follow:

I am now sending you the picture of Saturn that I have captured with a DMK 21AU04.AS camera and a Meade LX 200 10 telescope.

Location: Barbera del Valles, Barcelona

Time: 12-01-09 about 18:30

Tube S/C Meade LX 200 10”  f/11

1 video of 100 frames.

15 fps with DMK 21U04.AS  monocrhome camera & red filter

Filter:  Optec, Bessell U

Process with  Regixtax Photoshop and Pixinsight

The following picture is the screen shot of an excellent solar animation made by a German astronomy amateur, Ingmar Glass. He took all the images with his DMK 31AF03.AS astronomy camera.

Click the picture to open the animation in your browser.

Vielen Dank Ingmar! Gut gemacht!