We are glad to receive this Lunar image from Bogdan Matyja, astronomy amateur based in Zabrze, Poland. He took this picture on Nov.27 with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera and sent it to us this morning.

Here is a brief introduction in his email:

Send a photograph of the moon made on November 27, 2009 with the DMK 21AU04.AS. It is a mosaic of 20 images. Working in Registax and Photoshop.

My equipment: Celestron 6″ Newton, F = 750 mm + 3x extender EQ3 mount

Thank you Bogdan!

Happy New year to everyone!

The Imaging Source wishes everyone in the astronomy camera online community a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Please note that The Imaging Source’ headquarter in Germany will be closed on December 25, 26, and 31, as well as January 1.

French astronomy amateur Laurent Langelez captured this spectacular view of the Sun with his DMK 31AU03.AS on Dec.19. The Sunspot is numbered 1035, and it is seven times bigger than our planet.

Sunspot 1035

The Sun

Newton 254 Astrosolar filter + continuum+uv-ir and DMK 31AU03.AS

The Sun was low and just above the horizon, so there was a lot of turbulence.

Processed in Registax 5.

80mm Refractor.

The Imaging Source DMK 41 astronomy cameras are featured with Sony 1/2″ CCD chips. With these cameras, astronomy photographers are able to take astro images of the resolution of 1280 x 960.  Here is a Sun picture photographed with DMK 41AU02.AS.

Solar Image - Click to Open the Original

The author Lastrofieffe, or nicknamed as “astro”, is a French astronomy amateur. He sent the picture to us on 17th of December.

Here, the large field of DMK 41 becomes really interesting. And yet these images are made with a non-modified Personal Solar Telescope. A series of 300 images were stacked with Registax, and colored in Photoshop.

Thank you Lastrofieffe for the beautiful image!

TIS Astronomy Cameras work with many cool astronomy softwares ranging from guiding to image acquisition and processing. The image below is the screenshot of WebCamScheinern, or WCS in short, which helps astronomy amateurs to polar align their mounts using the drift alignment method with the assistance of CCD or Webcam.

The software is developed by Wolfgang Ruthner based in Austria. The idea is to measure the star drift of an inaccurately aligned mount using a webcam, and to calculate the amount of polar axis misalignment. The error in polar azimuth and polar elevation can be adjusted very quickly, even if Polaris is not visible

For more info on this program, visit http://wcs.ruthner.at/index-en.php.