John Kirchhoff is an amateur astronomer, who is based in Hudson, MI, USA. At the beginning of the week, he submitted a couple of Lunar images, which he captured with his FireWire astronomy camera DMK 41AF02.AS, manufactured by The Imaging Source.

The first image is of Vallis Alpes and the second a wide field shot, which he captured on June 25, 2008 and June 28, 2008 (click on the images to see the original version):

In addition to the images, John wrote:

Attached images were taken with the DMK [astronomy] camera. The seeing conditions were very average at best and I continue to be amazed at how well the DMK’s can “beat” the seeing! The widefield shot is at f/10, the Vallis Alpes image closeup at f/25 using a Celestron 235mm SCT.

We send out a great thanks to John for his high resolution images and for his enthusiasm with The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.

Alberto Mayer is an amateur astro-photographer based in the outskirts of Milan, Italy. We have written about his work before here in the blog. In the past, he has submitted deep sky and Lunar images.

This time, Alberto has sent in a spectacular mosaic of the Moon, which he captured in May 2008, using a DMK 31AU03.AS astronomy camera. The image is below. To view the original version, which is in full resolution and contains information on the hardware used to capture the image, please click on the following image:

A great thanks goes out to Alberto for sharing this photo with the rest of the astronomy cameras community.

Torsten Hansen is an amateur astronomer, based in Germany, who has just submitted some images he captured with a brand new DMK 21AF04.AS astronomy camera.

In his e-mail to The Imaging source, Torsten wrote (translated from German):

These are the first images that I have submitted to the Astronomy Cameras Blog. One image of Jupiter at 20° altitude in RRGB and one in IRRGB (685nm), captured with a 8″ Newton. You can easily see the two additional red spots to the side of the Great Red Spot.

Jupiter in IRRGB

Jupiter in RRGB

To view the originals, please click the above images.

A great thanks goes out to Torsten for his contribution to the astronomy cameras community.

Although many of us in the imaging world can’t see much of our favorite gas giant, those in the southern hemisphere are still snapping stunning shots with The Imaging Source cameras.

Our good friend, Matt Watson, in Australia writes:

It’s been a while since I submitted images for the [astronomy cameras] blog. The seeing here in Brisbane (Australia) has been very bad for months.

There was a brief opportunity last night, which I embraced eagerly!

This was taken around 10.15pm local time with Jupiter at approximately 57 degrees latitude.

As you can see, the conditions were not too bad. The presence of the jetstream is still noticeable, but it was nice to be out there capturing at least something.

This was captured with a Celestron 9.25″ SCT, 3x Televue Barlow, Astronomik RGB (Type 2) filter set, Atik manual filter wheel, and the DMK 21AF04.AS

Processing carried out in Registax 4, Astra Image 2.5 Max and PhotoShop 7.

Accompanying his e-mail to The Imaging Source, Matt included the following image:

Good Job Matt!

A very good friend and long time customer of The Imaging Source sent this nice shot from his home town in Mexico. Senior Roel purchased the DMK 41AF02.AS this past May at the RTMC in Big Bear, CA and quickly utilized the camera to image the Sun. Eric writes:

[...] I just tried the DMK 41AF02.AS on a day with terrible seeing (turbulence). I am sending an image taken in H-alpha with a 40mm stacked Coronado filter mounted on a Televue 76mm f/6.3. It is a mosaic of 4 frames.

Best Regards,

Eric (Mexico)

Below is the image, which Eric submitted:

Looks great Eric, Thanks Amigo!

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