Dear Avid Stargazers,

I apologize for not BLOGGING in 14 days or so, I have been swamped and mostly out of the country attempting to help those friends of The Imaging Source in Central and South America.

I have been, for the past month, meeting and greeting distributors in Southern California and Mexico to funnel our awesome astronomy cameras below the equator! It is as many of you know, is not an easy task!

But, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and if I have my way, The Imaging Source will be available within 1 month throughout Mexico at the prices we advertise on the web!

This will be very welcome news to our friends in Central America as they now pay very large duties on astronomy goods from the US. Hopefully, The Imaging Source will soon be able to offer our cameras to the astronomy consumer at a fair price.

Here is a local University that I visited while on location in Guadalajara, Mexico:

Please, keep checking back for update in this endeavor!

profjohn

We have discussed the work of the French amateur astronomer Laurent Langelez previously in this blog. This time, he has sent us a couple of images, which depict the international space station (ISS).

The images were captured with the USB 2.0 astronomy camera DMK 31AU03.AS, manufactured by The Imaging Source:

Laurent added the following comments to his e-mail (translated from French):

Here is a photo of ISS, which was captured by my son – he is only seven years old. Together, we make a really good team! The image was slightly post-processed in RegiStax. A USB 2.0 [astronomy] camera DMK 31AU03.AS was mounted on a Newton 200/1000 with a Barlow x 2 Celestron.

We thank Laurent and Guillaume for sharing these images with the rest of the astronomy cameras community.