The jury over at Ciel & Espace magazine in France have now chosen the winners of their competition. We have blogged previously about this competition here and here.

You can see all entries online at:
http://astrophotography.fr/concours/

Below are the winners and winning photos:

First Prize

1x DMK 41AF02.AS FireWire astronomy camera with a resolution of 1280×960 pixels. The prize goes to Christian Viladrich of Jongieux, France who submitted the following photo:

Second Prize

1x DMK 31AU03.AS USB 2.0 astronomy camera with a resolution of 1024×768 pixels. The prize goes to Richard Bosman of Enschede, Holland who submitted the following photo:

Third Prize

1x DMK 21AU04.AS USB 2.0 astronomy camera with a resolution of 640×480 pixels. The prize goes to Jean-Claude Briand of Montlhéry, France who submitted the following photo:

Fourth to Seventh Prizes

1x special edition Ciel & Espace Photographier le ciel (photograph the night sky)

Our sincerest congratulations go out to all three winners!

We would be delighted to hear from you when your camera arrives. Tell us what you think of The Imaging Source astronomy cameras! Send us some sample images that you have captured with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras!

After a year of selling The Imaging Source cameras to the Astronomy community, the worldwide adoption of our cameras in the market has been surpassed only by the positive product reviews on all continents! In that light, I would like you to help me welcome another new member to our imaging community from Australia. Matt Watson, an imager from Brisbane, recently from sent some nice Mars shots that he took from way “Down Under.”

In this e-mail, Matt writes:

Hi Folks. I have a DMK21AF04.AS camera and use it with my Celestron 9.25 SCT to capture planetary/lunar images. The results are great!

All images were captured using a C9.25, 3x Televue barlow and red Astronomik Type 2 filter. The resulting AVI was processed in Registax 4 and then given some ‘touch-up’ work in PhotoShop 7.

Many thanks.

Matt.

Below is the photo that he sent in:

Great job Matt! Send us some of Jupiter when you can. And that goes for everyone else!

profjohn