Last week, Didier Favre submitted an image that he captured with his DMK 31AF03.AS astronomy camera. The photo shows solar prominences and was captured on May 01, 2008. The image is the result of 150 stacked singular images:
A great thanks goes out to Didier for his participation in The Imaging Source astronomy cameras community.
The blog of astronomy society in Saint-Michel Mont Mercure, France - more commonly know as Saint Michel Village du Ciel - has recently published an interesting blog about IC Capture.AS and The Imaging Source astronomy cameras. The article contains a great image of Saturn and a couple of deep sky images. Click through to see them (link below)!
In addition, the author has published the following screenshots of IC Capture.AS in action:
Read the full article at:
http://astromercure8.free.fr/?p=152
Axel Canicio - the winner of the Astronomy Cameras Competition in March - has submitted a first light image, which he captured with his new DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera.
Below is a photo of M51, which he captured on April 26, 2008 (click to zoom);
According to Axel’s e-mail, the photo was captured using the following hardware and settings:
C11 + F/3.3 Meade reducer, Skywatcher EQ6 GOTO, Skywatcher ED80 for tracking.
Photo camera : DMK 21AU04.AS
Tracking camera : DMK 31AF03.AS
15 frames at 10 seconds, 20 frames at 30 seconds, 20 frames at 60 seconds, 25 frames at 120 seconds.
Axel is the chief programmer of the software Astrosnap and is currently testing the professional version of his application with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.
A great thanks goes out to Axel for this exceptional image!
Last week, we received the following image of the Apennine Mountains on the Moon, submitted by Thomas Jäger, an amateur astronomer, based in Germany. It is a first light image, which Thomas captured, using his new USB 2.0 astronomy camera DBK 31AU03.AS on April 13. 2008:
Accompanying his image, Thomas wrote (translated from German):
I am very happy with the camera. 30 frame per second are enough to get the image really sharp. The images (video) have very low noise and no compression artifacts whatsoever. A great compliment for the software [IC Capture.AS] which works perfectly. I post-processed the individual frames using Gioto.
A great thanks go out to Thomas for this wonderful contribution and especially for his enthusiasm about The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.
Here is yet another interesting astronomy application using The Imaging Source cameras sent to us by the infamous Rainer Ehlert in Mexico.
Please click on the following frame to download the movie file of ca. 50MB:
Accompanying this file, Rainer writes:
Using a DFK 41AF02.AS as cameras together with an Fisheye lens from Sunex 185° FOV 1.55mm focal length and f2.0, I built a little All-Sky camera. [...]
[Shown here is] approximately 10 hours of recording images every 15 seconds with an exposure time of 13.7 seconds [using the DFK 41AF02.AS]. This All-Sky camera thematic [astronomy application] is getting more and more interesting to many amateur astronomers as they want to check what is happening with their sky during long periods.
Special thanks to Mike Shreick who inspired me to making one of this All-Sky cameras.
I hope you like [...]
regards,
Rainer
Thanks Amigo and keep up all the great work!
profjohn
