One of our main resellers in Australia, York Optical, has published a full page advert in the Australian magazine Sky and Space for The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.

The advert that appears on page 2 of the July/August 2007 edition includes a quote from Mike Salway from the legendary IceInSpace forums:

The DMK 21AF04 monochrome camera took my imaging to the next level. The low-noise, high-sensitivity and fast frame rate make it perfect from long focal length imaging of the moon and planets.

The advert published the following image of Jupiter, which was captured by Mike Salway:

We now have resellers for our astronomy cameras in most industrialized nations of the world. Please take a look at the reseller section for details:

http://www.astronomycameras.com/en/company/resellers/

If you would like to resell The Imaging Source astronomy cameras, please contact us. We are continually looking for new resellers that have a strong astro-imaging foundation and unsurpassed customer support!

Thank you.

We are currently actively soliciting dealers for our astronomy cameras.

Following our recent advert in Sky and Telescope, several dealers have contacted us and we are in the process of setting up dealer accounts with them.

However, we are still looking for dealers throughout the world.

If you are the owner of a store (either physical or online), and would like to resell The Imaging Source astronomy cameras, please contact us.

We are able to offer very good dealer rates!

On April 27, 2007, Baader Planetarium became one of our resellers in Germany. This week, they have published two in depth pages (here and here), discussing our astronomy cameras (in German).

Below, is a summary of the benefits, which Baader Planetarium cites that The Imaging Source DMK series of astronomy cameras has over traditional web cameras. We have translated this information from German to English to make it accessible to our world wide audience. The source is cited below.

Baader Planetarium writes:

• Clean and robust, mechanical and electrical workmanship (metal casing with C/CS mount thread), such as is demanded in industrial applications. For example, conveyor belt surveillance and controlling in dirty production environments. Benefit: As the C/CS mount thread is spun in metal, it is possible to ensure a very tight fit onto the eye piece mount; thus any T2 accessory can be integrated.

• Extremely fast image capture and transfer via FireWire, monochrome (1024×768 pixel) and RGB color (640×480 pixel) with up to 30 frames per second (dependent upon the speed of the connected PC and/or hard disk). Benefit: Thanks to the fast image capture and transfer, moments of good seeing can be taken advantage of and thus the camera’s raw image data capture can be optimally used.

• Very sensitive CCD (For example: Exposure time of the Moon at f/10 can be considerably shorter than 1/100 second). Benefit: Undesirable effects from bad seeing can be avoided. Narrow band color filters (such as Baader K-Line, SolarContinum, IR Pass) can be used to improve the image, even at relatively short exposure times.

• Low dark current noise and extremely low noise electronics (without cooling). Benefit: The Imaging Source astronomy cameras can be deployed for deep sky captures and as a guiding camera. Exposure time can be set manually at up to 3600 seconds.

• Image data from the DMK astronomy cameras are not compressed, nor electronically filtered. Benefit: True raw image data is guaranteed. These can be used for post-capture image processing.

• Free definition and application of a region of interest (ROI) on the live video stream. Benefit: When seeing is bad, it is often not necessary to capture the full 1024×768 pixels and to just concentrate on the best part of the image. This saves large amounts of storage.

• Singular images from the live video stream can be saved by pressing the space key; furthermore, image sequences can be saved.

• Professional and stable camera control software IC Catpure.AS.

Source: http://www.baader-planetarium.de/dmk/dmk_start.htm

We welcome Telescop-Service as the latest company to resell our cameras in Germany.

They announce our cameras with (translation below):

The Imaging Source bietet CCD Kamera für Industriezwecke an. Nun werden diese professionellen Kameras auch für die Amateurastronomie umgearbeitet. Zur Zeit werden diese Kameras als FireWire Kameras angeboten. USB Kameras werden folgen.

Translation:

The Imaging Source markets CCD cameras for industrial applications. These professional cameras have been redesigned to address the needs of amateur astronomers. Currently, The Imaging Source ships their cameras with a FireWire bus. Cameras with a USB connector will follow soon.

Learn more about Telescop-Service Ransburg and see our entire series of astronomy cameras on their web site (in German):

http://www.teleskop-service.de/CCDImagingSource/CCDImagingSource.htm