Stephen Ramsden, from Atlanta, GA runs www.solarastrophotography.com. He sent in the following fan mail last night:

I bought the DFK 31[AU03.AS] and the DMK 31[AU03.AS] from Camera Bug in Atlanta and I love them! Thanks for a great product. Would you please consider using my photo for use on your gallery page? It was my first attempt through my Coronado SolarMax 90 with your DMK 31[AU03.AS] monochrome 15 minutes out of the box.

We are only too happy to publish your image here in the blog. Here it is:

Thanks for the great photo. Keep them coming!

When a member of The Imaging Source family reads a nice article in the Newsletter, a magazine, or the blog, I often receive responses from other members of our tribe that reads about like this…

Hello Profjohn,

I saw the Jupiter animation in your newsletter an thought you might be interested in one I made a few nights ago. I used a DMK 21AU04.AS camera and C8 at F/10. I captured 62 sequences of about 200 frames each at one minute intervals. I then processed each video in RegiStax. The resulting JPEGs were then aligned in Photoshop.

Click here to see the movie

The aligned images were made into a movie using PhotoLapse software. Finally, I imported the movie into Windows Movie Maker to add titles and credits. It took quite a bit of time for a 4 second movie, but I really like it.

Once again, thanks for an excellent product.

Ralph Ford
Redondo Beach, CA

Nice job Ralph! Keep ‘um coming!

Profjohn

Matt Watson has just submitted a great little image of Jupiter, which he captured with a DMK 21AF04:

About the image, he writes:

It’s been a few weeks since the seeing in Brisbane has delivered anything reasonable, but conditions looked favourable tonight, so I decided to set up. I’m happy with the detail, particularly on Ganymede at lower left. It just goes to show what the 21AF04 is capable of, even in average seeing. The shadow on Jupiter’s surface is Ganymede’s, while Io is at the upper right of the image. These images captured around 8.42pm (GMT +10) with the C9.25 and 3x Televue barlow. DMK 21AF04, processed in Registax 4.

Thanks, Matt, for the contribution! Keep up the good work.

Efrain Morales has just written to us:

I’m submitting this photo. Of Uranus and Neptune (Opposition for Neptune on August 15 and Uranus soon in September) and being compared in size with the same set-up and equipment with a recent session of Jupiter it was my first with the DMK capturing the actual core not the halo that makes the planet slightly larger and with noise albedo features. And on the second photo it’s of Jupiter with two months of observations sequence it was a great period for being low for northern observers.

Below are the photos to which he eludes (click for originals):

As ever, Efrain, magnificent work! Keep it up.

Jim Ferreira from Livermore, CA, USA wrote us a very enthusiastic e-mail this week, talking about his experiences with a DMK 21AU04.AS. He writes:

[...] I had no idea I could get this kind of image quality and resolution out of a 3 inch APO refractor.

The DMK 21AU04.AS is totally killer! Easily one of the finest monochrome cameras available today for lunar-planetary astrophotography. [...]

Thanks for an incredible tool for high resolution astrophotography. I look forward to further exploring the camera’s capabilities.

Below are the photos, which Jim included with his e-mail:

Jupiter - Io Transit

Plato down through the Apenninus Mountains to Eratosthenes

The photos were shot with a Stellarvue SV80S APO triplet @ f/18 for Jupiter and f/15 for Plato/Eratosthenes.

If you would like to see more lunar images shot with the DMK 21AU04.AS and Stellarvue SV80S APO shot by Jim, take a look at this web site:
http://www.lafterhall.com/dmk_lunar-planetary.html