Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Sample Images on January 25, 2008 at 12:09 CET.
Sebastian Voltmer wrote in last week, to announce that his web site had been updated to included a number of images that he captured with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.
The following image of Saturn, which was captured on March 22, 2007, particularly caught our attention:
In addition, Sebastian’s web site contains a number of images, which he captured with The The Imaging Source cameras:
Our German speaking readers may be interested in an article from the magazine mobile, which is published by the German rail company. It discusses Sebastian’s astro-photography work and how he developed a passion for this past-time. The images in the article were captured with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.
Click to download the full-sized version:
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Sample Images on January 24, 2008 at 06:46 CET.
It seem that the lunar images that our customer are capturing are getting bigger and bigger! Geert Vandenbulcke has just sent in the following mosaic image.
You can download the full 4728×6792 pixel (!) version - a whopping 10.7 MB (!) - by clicking on the image:
Accompanying the image, Geert talks about how he captured and created this monster:
The camera used was my DMK 41AF02 with an Astronomik red interference filter. The telescope was my Vixen VMC260L. All AVI’s used the same exposure time based on the brightest part of the Moon limb. 42 AVI files of 2000 frames were made, registered and 100 frames per AVI were stacked in Registax4, and then processed with a mild wavelet filter - this took about 5 minutes per image. I took care to process all individual images exactly. The images were then assembled in Photoshop. The mosaic took about 4 hours work to complete. I’m using a Pentium 4 3.2 GHz with 2 GB RAM.
Here, at The Imaging Source, we find your image awesome! I sincerely doubt that any other customer has created a larger image, but if you have, send it to me and I will display it here in the astronomy cameras blog. Well done Geert!
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Sample Images on January 23, 2008 at 06:26 CET.
Efrain Morales wrote in last week, with the following image. Click to enlarge:
In this e-mail, Efrain writes:
This is a photo of a full month of observations from December 18, 2007 up to January 16, 2008 in which is a series of photos creating a full rotation of the red planet, Note not at image scale the planet is getting smaller everyday.
Again, we thank Efrain for his work and actively request that you send us your images, captured with astronomy cameras, manufactured by The Imaging Source. Clear skies to all!
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Blogged by Jonathan Maron in Competition Winners on January 22, 2008 at 06:33 CET.
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!
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Blogged by profjohn in Community, Sample Images on January 22, 2008 at 01:17 CET.
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
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