Although many of us in the imaging world can’t see much of our favorite gas giant, those in the southern hemisphere are still snapping stunning shots with The Imaging Source cameras.

Our good friend, Matt Watson, in Australia writes:

It’s been a while since I submitted images for the [astronomy cameras] blog. The seeing here in Brisbane (Australia) has been very bad for months.

There was a brief opportunity last night, which I embraced eagerly!

This was taken around 10.15pm local time with Jupiter at approximately 57 degrees latitude.

As you can see, the conditions were not too bad. The presence of the jetstream is still noticeable, but it was nice to be out there capturing at least something.

This was captured with a Celestron 9.25″ SCT, 3x Televue Barlow, Astronomik RGB (Type 2) filter set, Atik manual filter wheel, and the DMK 21AF04.AS

Processing carried out in Registax 4, Astra Image 2.5 Max and PhotoShop 7.

Accompanying his e-mail to The Imaging Source, Matt included the following image:

Good Job Matt!

A very good friend and long time customer of The Imaging Source sent this nice shot from his home town in Mexico. Senior Roel purchased the DMK 41AF02.AS this past May at the RTMC in Big Bear, CA and quickly utilized the camera to image the Sun. Eric writes:

[...] I just tried the DMK 41AF02.AS on a day with terrible seeing (turbulence). I am sending an image taken in H-alpha with a 40mm stacked Coronado filter mounted on a Televue 76mm f/6.3. It is a mosaic of 4 frames.

Best Regards,

Eric (Mexico)

Below is the image, which Eric submitted:

Looks great Eric, Thanks Amigo!

profjohn

Salvatore Antonio Spampinato is an amateur astronomer, based in Italy, who has submitted one of the first images of the Moon, which he captured with his DMK 21AF04 camera, manufactured by The Imaging Source.

Accompanying his image, he wrote:

I haven’t any kind of “degree” in astroimaging so I experienced simple shots using a DMK21AF04, joined to a small telephoto lens (Fujinon 200mm f/4.5). Just for fun…

- Moon, 16-06-2008 19:45 UT. Stack of 500 frames. IR-cut on. Registax and IRIS.

- M13. Stack of 120 shots without guiding (about 30 for each channel), ranging from 8 to 16 seconds, taken from my roof in the middle of my town. Dark subtraction. LRGB [composite] using IR-cut plus 3 very old photo filters. Unfortunately transparency wasn’t so good, then I hope to get something better in future.

Thanks you for sharing this image with the community.

Efrain Morales has again been capturing images of Jupiter from his own Jaicoa Observatory in Puerto Rico. He recently submitted the following image, which he commentates with:

Here is an image showing the Great Red Spot and its siblings Ba and Oval2 trailing behind. Finally had above average weather to capture this fine moment with the DMK 21AF04 camera and again with excellent results.

Below is the said image (click to see the original, annotated version):

Efrain, your work continues to impress us!

Shevill Mathers wrote to again this week to let us know about The Antarctic Midwinter Festival, which is currently taking place in Tasmania (June 20, 2008 to June 29, 2008).

The festival celebrates Tasmania’s special connection with the Antarctic, hinging around the winter solstice – the shortest day and longest night of the Antarctic year.

Presenting the Southern Cross Observatory, and of course The Imaging Source astronomy cameras, Shevill has proudly submitted a number of photos which he captured at the event. He can be seen in the left of the following photo – the gentleman who is being interviewed.

Accompanying the photos, Shevill notes:

In my Southern Cross Observatory display, the auroral activity images and slide show served to illustrate how the sun and earth interact to create the spectacular displays such as we observe from southern Tasmania. The science displays were very well attended both myself and my fellow friend & astronomer, Laurie Priest, were kept busy answering the multitude of questions about auroral activity and of course telescopes and cameras. Having some of my own images on display always attracts attention when visitors realise that given the right type of equipment, they can take astro pictures themselves. A lot of interest was shown in the little square blue ‘cubes’ [The] Imaging Source Firewire AS Cameras. The quality and price made a big impression – and I am sure many visitors went away with some very positive thoughts on how they could get into high quality astro imaging without breaking the bank!

A great thanks goes out to Shevill, yet again, for his enthusiastic participation in the astronomy cameras community.