A number of sample images, captured with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras have appeared in the July/August edition of the French publication Astronomie Magazine.

On pages 42 and 44 a lunar image, showing the Fracastorius and Beaumont craters, captured by Jérôme Grenier has been published. Jérôme used The Imaging Source DMK 31AF03 for his photos. His web site contains a number of lunar images and is well worth a visit.

On page 89, a series of 39 images, showing Saturn disappearing behind the Moon has been published. The astrophotographer, Christophe Gervier, used The Imaging Source DMK 21AF04 to capture his images. Again, his web site contains a large number of Sun, Moon, Planetary and Deep Sky images and is worthy of a visit.

Our compliments go to both these astrophotographers for their great work.

My solar friend in Texas, Jeff Barton, whom I introduced to the site on a previous post, has finished some image comparisons in h-alpha sensitivity that I thought may be interesting for all DMK users. For the comparison, he used The Imaging Source DMK 21F04 FireWire camera.

In his flickr account, Jeff writes:

A comparison of the ToUCam Pro 840K and the DMK 21F04 firewirecam used with an h-alpha solar telescope. These photos were made about 2 hours apart using the same telescope. The color on the left is pinker than it normally appears in the telescope. I stretched the histogram to make the detail easier to see. In the scope this looks more of a bright reddish-orange.

Below is the comparison image:

NOTE: The Imaging Source cameras, and of course their owners, MUST wear solar filters when directly viewing the Sun.

On pages 8 and 9 of the August/September 2007 edition of the German language magazine Interstellarum, one of our German resellers, AstroShop.de has a double page advert, advertising our astronomy cameras.

Translated, the text reads:

[The] Imaging Source Cameras

[The] Imaging Source FireWire Cameras for Astronomy

These new cameras from [The] Imaging Source offer a better resolution and higher stability than previously available planetary cameras. The cameras are ideally suited for planetary work. Thanks to an especially low noise CCD chip, long exposure times are possible. Thus, the camera is also suitable for deep sky imaging.

[The] Imaging Source Camera - EUR 435.00

Learn more at www.astroshop.de/?r_id=32

Source: Interstellarum, August/September 2007 edition, page 9.

Oldfied So in Hong Kong has again posted an entry in his blog that describes his very first impressions with a brand new DBK 21AF04.AS.

He writes:

Even at high gain, it’s cleaner than a ToUcam Pro, cleaner than I imagined.

Read the full preliminary review in his blog.

Chuck Wood over at LPOD has published a lunar photo by Bob Pilz.

Chuck writes:

In this area of generally weathered and undistinguished craters it is easy to not recognize Goodacre, but he (I’m thinking of the author) is the relatively sharp-rimmed crater at center right, sitting on the rim of Gemma Frisius. Goodacre, the crater, is 46 km wide with a smooth floor and a small bright peak. Walter Goodacre, the man, was the director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association in the early 20th century and self-published his wonderful red book, The Moon, in 1931.

Below is the crater image that was recently published on LPOD:

Bob used a 200mm f/6 Newtonian reflector, Televue 3x Barlow, DMK 21BF04, ‘Blue’ IR-block filter, .20 arcsec/pixel, 30 fps, 1/39 sec, 600/9000 frames stacked; processed in Registax V4, PS CS, Focus Magic.