Marko Vidovic from Markovci (Slovenia) submitted the following images recently, which he captured with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera:

In his e-mail to The Imaging Source, he writes:

Here, I made a couple of sun photos in H-alpha again. All made with Solarmax 40/bf15 2x barlow and DMK 21AU04.AS CCD camera. All the pictures made [on March 30, 2008] in Stojnci, Slovenia.

A great thanks goes out to Marko for his hard work and for sharing these images with the rest of the astronomy cameras community.

Following the recent launch of the French astronomy cameras blog, I am delighted to announce that the astronomy cameras blog is now available in Simplified Chinese!

The Simplified Chinese language version is written by my esteemed colleague Xiao Sun and although shares some content with this blog, is not a direct translation.

With an emphasis on the happenings, events and community news in the Asia Pacific region, the Simplified Chinese language version is updated many times each week and is intended to strengthen the community amongst our Simplified Chinese speaking customers.

Read it online and subscribe today:
http://ZH-CN.AstronomyCamerasBlog.com

Below is a screenshot, should you not be able to view Chinese script on your computer:

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.

We recently received the following images from a customer in Italy: Alberto di Stazio is an amateur astrophotographer, who is based in Rome.

He sent us two images of NGC 7662 and NGC 2392, which he captured with his astronomy camera DBK 21AF04.AS:

NGC 7662 - Blue Snowball Nebula

In his e-mail to us, he added the following about this image:

Feb 9, 18.00 UT.
Location: Rome
Telescope: C11 at f 6.3
Camera: DBK21AF04.AS
Total of 100 images between 6 and 10 seconds (four different videos). Initial elaboration done with registax. Using registax I then produced a video in AVI format that was elaborated with Iris. No other program was used.

NGC 2392 - Eskimo Nebula

In his e-mail to us, he added the following about this image:

Mar 29, 21.00 UT.
Location: Rome
Telescope: C11 at f 6.3
Camera: DBK21AF04.AS
Total of 150 images between 6 and 12 seconds (six different videos). Initial elaboration done with registax. Using registax I then produced a video in AVI format that was elaborated with Iris. No other program was used.

Furthermore, Alberto makes some constructive comments on the astronomy cameras web sites:

In your Internet site you have a lot of wonderful pictures taken to the Moon and planets. I am sending pictures of planetary nebulae. These pictures were taken from Rome (very high light pollution) with a C11 at f 6.3 and the DBK 21AF04.AS. I have seen in the Internet equivalent pictures but taken with CCD that costs 10 times the DBK [...]

We thank Alberto for his contribution to The Imaging Source community.