Apart from maintaining excellent quality of its astro-imaging products, The Imaging Source is constantly focusing on customer experience, including price sensitivity.

DxK 41 series of Astronomy Cameras has the highest resolution, i.e. 1280 x 960 pixels, among the complete line, but its price does not remain the top anymore. Since four weeks ago, The Imaging Source has reduced its price to the same level as DxK 31 series.

No matter which camera you are using, we are glad to see more beautiful astronomy images taken with it!

German astronomy amateur Roman Breisch sent us a few images he took with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera. The Saturn picture and one of the solar images are stunning!

He provided following info on the Saturn picture in email (translated from German):

Telescope: Celestron C11.

3 times magnification with Baader FFC.

Camera DMK 21AU04.AS.

I/R/G/B components each with 400 out of 1000 frames.

ATIK motorized lens wheel.

Imaging Software Lucam Recorder，Processed in Registax 5 and Fitswork.

Location: Erdweg, 30 km west of Munich.

Thank you so much Roman! Well done!

Here is a beautiful picture of Mercury taken by Torsten Lietz, one of our German astronomy amateurs. The info at the bottom of the image is pretty clearly and probably easy to comprehend even if you do not speak German.

Dank Sehr Torsten!

Although he started using The Imaging Source astronomy camera only two months ago, Vasilev Ivan, a Russian astronomy amateur , has already taken some fabulous lunar images with his  DMK 31AU03.AS.

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In the email, he told us:

What concerns the first picture – prime focus of SW MAK 150 / 1800 mm / HEQ5 / DMK 31AU with filter Astronomic IR Pro 742. Exposure – 1/30 sec. Time is 20:10 at the evening at 02-05-2009. I have elected 680 frames from 740 and send it in Avistack program.

What concerns the second picture – prime focus SW MAK 150 / 1800 mm / HEQ5 / DMK 31AU with filter Astronomic IR Pro 742. Exposure – 1/30 sec. Mosaic from 2 frames. Time is 20:30 at the evening at 02-05-2009. I have selected 600 frames from 1000 for each and I have send it in Avistack program.

I have using DMK31AU for only two months, but result it’s incredible for me. I have captured video of moon terrain with DMK mostly. Thank you for your company for a high quality budget product – DMK31AU03.AS.

Thank you Vasilev for these great images! Well done!

This mosaic image depicts the region of Aristoteles and Eudoxus craters on the northern hemisphere of the moon. Its author, Italian astronmy amateur Alberto Mayer, has been photographing with DMK 31AF03.AS astronomy camera for quite a period. As a matter of fact, many of the great pictures on this blog come from Alberto.

Details about this image are included at the bottom.

Grazie Alberto!