The UK magazine - Astronomy Now - has just announced the winners of their Astronomy Camera Competition, which was sponsored by The Imaging Source. Below is a clipping from their current issue:
Our warmest congratulations go out to David Douglas, R. Skinner and Nina Hayes! If you get a chance, we would love to receive some images from you, which were captured with your new astronomy cameras. Have fun! 
Stuart Thomson is an amateur astronomer, based in Australia. This week, he submitted a great image of Jupiter and its moons, which he captured with a DMK 21AF04.AS astronomy cameras, manufactured by The Imaging Source.
Accompanying his image, he wrote:
I use a Meade 10″ RCX400 telescope. I used a Meade 3x Telextender to boost the focal length to 6000mm @ f/24.
Next in line is a 1.25″ flip mirror, straight through goes to the DMK 21AF04.AS camera, which I use for monochrome Luminance capture, I have a light yellow filter inline to reduce the amount of blue (scattered) light reaching the detector. [...]
The weather was overcast for most of the day, but cleared later. When I started imaging the transparency was excellent, seeing was good, but not great. When this shot was taken the seeing had improved, but the transparency was getting worse due to high thin cloud.
A great thanks goes out to Stuart for his contribution to The Imaging Source astronomy cameras community.
Efrain Morales wrote to us again this week:
On this morning the moons were dancing around the giant planet. As you can see Io (L) was entering behind the planet Jupiter and then Europa coming from the (R) in front of the planet and then casting a shadow. And finally Io comes from behind top (R) and Europa at bottom (R). And the Grs and the Lrs and maybe Oval2? in front of the Grs it was a grand show!
Below is the image (click for original resolution):
As ever Efrain, thank you for your fantastic contribution to The Imaging Source astronomy cameras community.
Based in Redondo Beach, CA, USA Ralph Ford wrote to us this week to let us know about the following deep sky image of M13, which he shot with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera.
The photo was captured from Ralf’s Pine Flat Observatory, located in the foothills south-east of Porterville, CA. This area enjoys particularly dark skies, ideal for deep sky astro-photography with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.
Accompanying the image, he wrote the following to The Imaging Source:
Last weekend I used the DMK 21AU04.AS camera with an 80mm F/6.9 refractor, just to see what could be done. I was pretty surprised to see how deep the camera could go. [...] For M13 I stacked 100 four second exposures. Thank you for a great product!
Thank you, Ralf for your contribution to The Imaging Source astronomy cameras community.
Bob Pilz, a long time customer (November 2005) of The Imaging Source has sent me a nice lunar image taken with his DMK 21BF04. He purchased this triggered camera from the machine vision side of the house, before the astronomy cameras division was established and long before I came on the scene!
In an e-mail to The Imaging Source, Bob writes:
[...] here is an image of Heraclitus taken with my DMK 21BF04 camera. It is shown 1.25x to make it easier to see the many small craters resolved in this image. This camera continues to amaze me with its sensitivity and low noise.
- Udate: 2007/12/17, Utime: ~23:50
- Taken from Lat: 35 degrees 36 minutes N, Long: 82 degrees 33 minutes W, Elev: ~800m
- 200mm f/6 Newtonian reflector, Televue 3x Barlow, DMK 21BF04 B/W camera, Blue IR-block filter
- 30 fps, 1/44 sec, 200/9000 frames stacked
- Processed in Registax V4, PS CS, Focus Magic
Accompanying his e-mail was the following image:
