Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Community, Sample Images on January 31, 2008 at 08:24 CET.
Sébastien Kersten is an amateur astronomer, who lives in Brussels in Belgium. His web site, Astropixel.org, offers a large number of deep sky and planetary images, in addition to a comprehensive archive of articles, which originate from his observations in the observatory in Izana on Tenerife.
On his web site, Sébastien talks about his motivation for the site’s creation. The following has been translated from French:
The reason that I created the site was to allow you to see my astronomy photographs (deep sky and planetary). I wanted to show my web site visitors my personal view of the night sky and the beauty of the space that surrounds our planet. Regardless of how the images were captured, whether it be with a web camera, a CCD camera, digital or analog camera, I hope that my site motivates you to explore the universe.
Sébastien captured the following image in July 2007 in Cocq, Belgium. He used the DMK 31AF03 FireWire camera, manufactured by The Imaging Source.
As ever, a great thanks goes out to Sébastien for sharing this amazing image with the astronomy cameras community!
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Advertising, Press on January 30, 2008 at 15:38 CET.
Following the release of the English USB 2.0 Astronomy Cameras flyer, we are delighted to announce the French version. It is intended to offer an introduction to The Imaging Source astronomy cameras to our French speaking customers.
Click on either of the following images to download as a PDF.
USB 2.0 Astronomy Cameras Flyer - Page #1
USB 2.0 Astronomy Cameras Flyer - Page #2
French speaking readers may also be interested in the recently released Blog “caméras d’astronomie”!
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Press on January 29, 2008 at 17:28 CET.
In the February 2008 edition of the German magazine Sterne und Weltraum, the following article has just been published.
It announces the new line of USB 2.0 astronomy cameras, manufactured by The Imaging Source, to the magazine’s German audience.
Furthermore, the text describes the major characteristics of the cameras and discusses their output.
Below the article clipping is an English translation for our global audience.
English translation of the above clipping:
CCD Cameras With USB 2.0
In response to requests by their customers, The Imaging Source is now shipping new USB 2.0 CCD cameras in their DMK range. These cameras complement the well-known FireWire range.
The DMK cameras use modern CCD chips from Sony’s ICX series. According to the manufacturer these chips are especially low noise, even at long exposure times. Hence, these sensors are often used in industrial applications.
Using the shipped software, IC Capture.AS, amateur astronomers can capture series of images with a high frame rate and save the resulting data stream to lossless, uncompressed AVI files.
Furthermore, the cameras do not have an IR cut filter, color filter, nor any other electronic filter.
Further information: The Imaging Source Europe GmbH, Sommerstrasse 36, D-28215 Bremen; telephone: 0421 335 910; fax: 0421 335 9181; e-mail: sales@theimagingsource.com; web: www.theimagingsource.com.
We thank the editors at Sterne und Weltraum for publishing this product announcement.
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in About Us on January 28, 2008 at 06:06 CET.
Suite à la démarche déjà effectuée dans les sites de produits et du concours, le blog “caméras d’astronomie” est désormais disponible en français !
La version en langue française est écrite par ma collègue estimée Aurélie Le Fort et partagent également ses contenus avec ce blog, sans que ce soit une traduction mot à mot.
Mettant un accent sur les événements, manifestations et informations sur la communauté française et francophone, la version en langue française est actualisée plusieurs fois par semaine et est prévue pour renforcer la communauté entre nos clients francophones.
Lisez-le en ligne et inscrivez-vous dès aujourd’hui :
http://fr.AstronomyCamerasBlog.com
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in About Us on January 28, 2008 at 06:05 CET.
Following in the steps of the product and competition sites, the astronomy cameras blog is now available in French!
The French language version is written by my esteemed colleague Aurélie Le Fort and although shares some content with this blog, is not a direct translation.
With an emphasis on the happenings, events and community news in France and French speaking countries, the French language version is updated many times each week and is intended to strengthen the community amongst our French speaking customers.
Read it online and subscribe today:
http://fr.AstronomyCamerasBlog.com
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