Stuart Thompson continues to wow audiences with his images taken with the 1/4 inch, Sony Chip driven, DMK 21AF04.AS. Here is the latest and greatest from the other side if the planet. Thanks for spelling out the particulars. Keep up the good work!

profjohn

Hi ProfJohn,

Taken on the night of the 18th of August 2008 at 1123UT.

Best 500 or so frames of a 1000 frame avi at 30fps with a DMK21AF04.AS
monochrome camera for luminance, then switched over to a Phillips
SPC900NC for the colour.

Taken through a Meade 10″ RCX400 @ f/6 (I left a focal reducer in by
mistake), Meade 3x TeleXtender, Meade 1.25″ flip mirror.

I was really happy with these, this is probably the best one of the
bunch, pity I had forgotten about the focal reducer.  When I stacked
the images in Registax, I resized them 1.4x (Mitchell) to increase the
image scale.

Cheers
Stuart

Although many in the astro-imaging world have labelled The Imaging Source Cameras the top-rated planetary imager, I seem to be lately receiving more and more deep sky image submissions to AstronomyCamerasBlog. With the 60 fps, low noise, and supurb sensitivity, the DMK 21AU04.AS cameras is becoming the all around imager for many amatuer astrophotographers! Here’s one from the home office’s backyard!

Hi Profjohn,

…I send you another image , taken with the DMK 21AU04.AS, attached to a small 500mm  f5.6 Maksutov telescope. 30 Images with 65 seconds each were combined for that final image. With this smali telescope/camera combination, it is possible to take great shots of celestial objects, e.g.  the well known globular cluster M13 .

cs

Over the course of several months, the Italian amateur astronomer, Frederico Manzini, tested one of The Imaging Source’s astronomy cameras: DBK 31AU03.AS.

In his article, he discusses at length how well suited this camera is for deep sky astro-photography, despite its 8 bits.

If take a look at issue 194 (July 2008) of Nuovo Orione, you will find many images of planets and deep sky, which beautifully illustrate Frederico highly constructive text.

The Imaging Source would like to thank the author for taking the time to test the camera and the magazine for publishing the report.

This was the subject of a mail, which we received last week from Alberto Mayer.

Those of you, who read this blog regularly will know that Alberto is an Italian, based near Milan, who uses a DMK 31AU03.AS.

He submitted the following images, which in our opinion, are some of his best so far.

M16 - Eagle Nebula

M17 - Omega Nebula

M27 - Dumbbell Nebula

NGC 4565

M13 - Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

M20 - Trifid Nebula

M66 - NGC 3627

One word, Alberto: Awesome! Keep it up

We are delighted to announce that Joe Frangleton has just won one DMK 21AU04.AS.

Congratulations!

We have just sent him an e-mail confirming his win and asking his to send us his full postal address, so that we can dispatch his prize as soon as possible!

The Astronomy Cameras Competition is a recurring event, meaning that you can now enter again to be in with a chance of winning. Even if you participated in last month’s competition, you may enter again this month. This time, we are offering one of our USB 2.0 astronomy cameras - DMK 21AU04.AS.