The following images of the Sun were submitted by Italian astrophotographer Rossi Erio. Rossi captured all of them in this May with his DMK 41AF02.AS astronomy camera (resolution of 1280 x 960) in Mantova Italy.

Instrument: refractor  Sky Watcher 102/500, Halpha filter : Solar Spectrum 0,5A + TZ 4 FFT  2000 mm, Camera : DMK 41 AF02.AS, Software :Registax  V5  Pictures : Adobe  CS2.

Thank you Rossi! Good job!

Pieter Welters is a Dutch astrophotographer who has been using DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera. Yesterday he sent us three Sun images taken earlier this month. Pieter is based in Deventer, Holland.

The Sun in Ha-light. Optics: TeleVue TV-76 f/6.4 refractor with Coronado Solarmax 60/BF15 H-a filter, withTeleVue 2x barlow. Monochrome-image with TheImagingSource DMK 21AU04.AS monochrome camera. Stacked from 240 frames with Avistack. May 23th, 2010, 11:39 UT.

The Sun in Ha-light. Optics: TeleVue TV-76 f/6.4 refractor with Coronado Solarmax 60/BF15 H-a filter, Monochrome-image with TheImagingSource DMK 21AU04.AS monochrome camera. Stacked from 2 x 240 frames with Avistack. May 19th, 2010, 14:56 UT.

The Sun in Ha-light. Optics: TeleVue TV-76 f/6.4 refractor with Coronado Solarmax 60/BF15 H-a filter, Monochrome-image with TheImagingSource DMK 21AU04.AS monochrome camera. Stacked from 240 frames with Avistack. May 23th, 2010, 11:16 UT.

Thank you Pieter for the wonderful images and details on them! Do not hesitate to send us more of your astrophotography works.

The following two images of the Moon are submitted by Spanish amateur astrophotographer Javier. He took the images with his DMK 41AU02.AS astro camera.

These images are my first light with a The Imaging Source camera.
Until now,my images are make with a webcam, but the jump of quality is enormous with the DMK41AU02.AS USB camera.

The images are the result of processing a 45 seg video (15 FPS) with Registax,post-processing with Maximdl (curves and levels),and final touch with The Gimp free GNU software.

Only IR cut filter are used. The telescope is a Meade LX200 8″ F:10 classic.

The seeing was very good.

A great camera!!!

Thank you Javier! Feel free to send us more of your astronomy pictures.

This image of the full Moon is submitted by amateur astrophotographer William Guyot-Lénat based in France. He took all images with his DMK 41AU02.AS astronomy camera.

The Moon - Click to open big Mosaic Image

His email is translated as below:

Here’s a mosaic picture of four images taken with DMK 41AU02.AS camera and a telescope Astro-Physics 130 F6. It was made on April 27 in the city on my balcony. The mosaic was assembled with iMerge.

The 42nd annual RTMC Astronomy Expo took place in Big Bear City, California, from Wednesday, May 12 to Sunday, May 16, 2010.

RTMC stands for the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference and was founded in 1969. This year’s theme was Dark Sky Observing.

The Imaging Source‘ American resellers Opt Telescopes and Woodland Hills cameras went there with TIS Astronomy Cameras.