We are offering free shipping to all Continental US and European Union based customers, who purchase at least one camera from the astronomy cameras online store between August 1, 2007 and August 14, 2007.

To qualify for this special offer, simply click on the following link, add the required camera to your shopping cart and proceed to the checkout.

Shipping costs will be set to USD/EUR 0 for your order:

http://www.astronomycameras.com

Terms and Conditions

1. Special offer period is from August 1, 2007 at 00:01 CET to August 14, 2007 at 23:59 CET.
2. Orders must be placed on www.astronomycameras.com to qualify.
3. Customer shipping address must be in Continental US or the European Union.
4. Offer applies to Standard Shipping (Ground Shipping) only.
5. Definition of terms:
   • Continental US is defined as the following US states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
   • European Union is defined as the following member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.
   • CET means Central European Time. The time zone of The Imaging Source European Headquarters.

Congratulations to our DMK 21AF04.AS raffle winners Dennis and Denise Quinn from Bonita, CA and our DBK 21AF04.AS raffle winner Kevin Bennett from San Diego, CA.

This past weekend The Imaging Source showcased their line of astronomy cameras at the Southern California Astronomy Expo at Oceanside Photo and Telescope. In an invited talk, Profjohn not only gave a history lesson on the 20 year imaging company, but also walked the participants through the installation procedures of the The Imaging Source astronomy camera and the IC Capture.AS software. And as always, he then gave away solar toys!

Hats off to the OPT staff for throwing such a successful and entertaining astronomy event. This years will be hard to surpass!

In the new product showcase, on page 70 of the September 2007 edition of Sky & Telescope, The Imaging Source astronomy camera DMK series is presented.

The magazine writes:

PLANET IMAGER: The Imaging Source offers the DMK series of high-speed, low-noise webcams ideal for capturing the best pictures of our solar system. The model [DMK] 21AF04.AS camera ($390) features a ¼-inch Sony CCD chip with a 640-by-480 array of 5.6-micron pixels capable of recording up to 60 uncompressed frames per second. Larger, fancier models are available with your choice of monochrome or color CCD detectors. FireWire (IEEE 1394) 4-pin or 6-pin cable and C-to-1¼-inch adapters sold separately.

Source: Sky & Telescope, September 2007 edition, page 70.

Please note that since this article was published, one nosepiece now ships with all cameras from the astronomy range.

In recent months we have been in contact with an ever growing number of French speaking customers and prospective customers. To better support this growing sector, we have just released a French language version of the Astronomy Cameras web site (click on the image to go to new web site):

Please feel free to contact us in French or indeed, any other languages that is available on the web site.

IC Capture.AS is the camera control software that ships with all The Imaging Source astronomy cameras. Using IC Capture.AS, it is possible to:

• Set all camera parameters
• See the live image data stream from the camera
• Retrieve singular images from the camera and save them as BMP or JPG files
• Capture image sequences and save the single images as enumerated BMP or JPG files
• Capture image sequences and save them as lossless, uncompressed AVI files. These files can be post-processed in other astronomy applications, such as RegiStax

Learn more about IC Capture.AS on its product page.

Many of our Chinese customers have requested that we produce a Chinese version of IC Capture.AS.

It is therefore with great delight that I announce the release of IC Capture.AS Chinese version. If you are in possession of a valid serial number, you can download the newly released software in the downloads section of astronomycameras.com.

Below are a couple of splash screens from the Chinese version of IC Capture.AS and driver setup application.