Stephen Ramsden, from Atlanta, GA runs www.solarastrophotography.com. He sent in the following fan mail last night:

I bought the DFK 31[AU03.AS] and the DMK 31[AU03.AS] from Camera Bug in Atlanta and I love them! Thanks for a great product. Would you please consider using my photo for use on your gallery page? It was my first attempt through my Coronado SolarMax 90 with your DMK 31[AU03.AS] monochrome 15 minutes out of the box.

We are only too happy to publish your image here in the blog. Here it is:

Thanks for the great photo. Keep them coming!

In the past couple of weeks, there has been a flurry of reports on the Astronomy Cameras Competition, which we are currently running. To enter the competition, all you have to do is answer one simple question. You are then in with a chance of winning a DMK 21AU04.AS.

Below is an overview of some of the reports:

• Fotohits:
  Astrokamera zu gewinnen

• PopPhoto.com:
  Imaging Source Gives Astrophotography Camera Away

• ePHOTOzine:
  Win The Ultimate Planetary, Lunar And Solar Telescope Camera

• optyczne.pl:
  Konkurs dla miłośników astrofotografii

• Fotoitern:
  Astrokamera von Imaging Source zu gewinnen

• Photo Presse:
  Teleskop-Kamera zu gewinnen

When a member of The Imaging Source family reads a nice article in the Newsletter, a magazine, or the blog, I often receive responses from other members of our tribe that reads about like this…

Hello Profjohn,

I saw the Jupiter animation in your newsletter an thought you might be interested in one I made a few nights ago. I used a DMK 21AU04.AS camera and C8 at F/10. I captured 62 sequences of about 200 frames each at one minute intervals. I then processed each video in RegiStax. The resulting JPEGs were then aligned in Photoshop.

Click here to see the movie

The aligned images were made into a movie using PhotoLapse software. Finally, I imported the movie into Windows Movie Maker to add titles and credits. It took quite a bit of time for a 4 second movie, but I really like it.

Once again, thanks for an excellent product.

Ralph Ford
Redondo Beach, CA

Nice job Ralph! Keep ‘um coming!

Profjohn

Matt Watson has just submitted a great little image of Jupiter, which he captured with a DMK 21AF04:

About the image, he writes:

It’s been a few weeks since the seeing in Brisbane has delivered anything reasonable, but conditions looked favourable tonight, so I decided to set up. I’m happy with the detail, particularly on Ganymede at lower left. It just goes to show what the 21AF04 is capable of, even in average seeing. The shadow on Jupiter’s surface is Ganymede’s, while Io is at the upper right of the image. These images captured around 8.42pm (GMT +10) with the C9.25 and 3x Televue barlow. DMK 21AF04, processed in Registax 4.

Thanks, Matt, for the contribution! Keep up the good work.

Efrain Morales has just written to us:

I’m submitting this photo. Of Uranus and Neptune (Opposition for Neptune on August 15 and Uranus soon in September) and being compared in size with the same set-up and equipment with a recent session of Jupiter it was my first with the DMK capturing the actual core not the halo that makes the planet slightly larger and with noise albedo features. And on the second photo it’s of Jupiter with two months of observations sequence it was a great period for being low for northern observers.

Below are the photos to which he eludes (click for originals):

As ever, Efrain, magnificent work! Keep it up.