Attached image of M57 in Lyra, shooting with Newton Marcon 200mm F5.5, DMK41, UV-IR cut filter. Development of 5 frames of 132 “.

A revival of August 23, 2010 Jupiter in good seeing conditions. Newton Marcon to 200mm focal Eq. of mm6000. An excellent result for my instrument, well supported in this case by excellent DMK41.

Thank you Paolo for nice pictures! And welcome to the TIS astronomy camera online community!

This is no doubt a special opportunity for observers. We wish all of you clear skies during this event and expect to receive your image of Jupiter afterwards. Our email address: info@theimagingsource.com.

The following Jupiter photo was submitted by Australian astrophotographer Lester Barnes. Lester photographed this on April.9, 2009, with his DFK 21AF04.AS astronomy camera.

Here is what he wrote in the email:

If possible I desire to participate to the DMK blog, which I see a lot of stunning images.

My images are the first using the DMK 21AU04.AS Monochrome camera.

I hope you enjoy, all are SUN images using Luntsolar 60mm double stacked 50mm, B1200 blocking filter.

Pretty good pictures, Fabio, particularly for the first time! Thank you!

The following mosaic pictures were submitted by Italian photographer Adriano Amadori. He captured these amazing images on in August in Verona. His shooting camera is DMK 21AU04.AS with a 1/4″ CCD and USB interface.

More tech info can be found in the image caption.

Thank you Adriano! Keep up the good work!

Along with the prominence photo, Erio also sent us some pictures of his setup:

Erio has two astronomy cameras manufactured by The Imaging Source: DMK 41AF02.AS and DMK 31AF03.AS.

His email has been translated as below:

I send you this picture that presents a massive solar prominence on the eastern edge of the day 07/08/2010.

For comparison our Earth was added.

All my shots are obtained by the DMK 41 great sensor, ideal for resolution and size photography. My equipments consist of a Sky Watcher Refractor 102/500 Solar Spectrum filter and 0.5 A telecentric TZ 4.

Processing software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Registax 5.

Many thanks Erio! Keep up the good work!

I was solar observing in my backyard in Stratford, CT and decided to take some photos before this beautiful sunspot group disappears behind the sun’s eastern edge. This image was taken through my 10″ Odyssey dobsonian with a thousand oaks solar filter and DBK21 camera.

Thank you Elliot! Do not hesitate to send us more.

Earlier this month he managed to take these Jupiter images with unusual meteorological details below the North Equatorial Belt.

Jupiter

Tech info included in his mail:

Here my image of Jupiter made in the morning of August 12th of what some people call the “boring” side of Jupiter.  This time the side is not boring.  The image gives a nice view of the two disturbances between the NEZ and NEB.  I have been using my  DMK21AU04.AS for several years and love the results I get with it.  My RGB images are made using an orion filter wheel and orion filters with the exception for the luminance filter which is a Baader. I stack my images with emil Kraaikamp’s Autostakkert and post process them in Photoshop.

Visit my website for the rest of my images made with the camera including the transit of the ISS with the sun a few weeks ago.  http://ceastronomy.org/tramakers

Thank you Theo!

Javier also put this video on Youtube so that we can see the clip easily in the browser:

Here is what he wrote in the mail:

My name is Javier Carrillo,and I’m a user of TheImagingSource cameras from  Torrejon de Ardoz (Madrid)  SPAIN  After some attempts ,I have reached the goal of capture a plane crossing  the Sun, with the help of a DMK 41AU02.AS.  At last I have done!!

Telescope Orion eon 72mm and solar filter LS50F with the camera at primary focus, an IR cut filter.

Many Thanks Javier!

Details were included in his email later that week:

Shot this late Wednesday afternoon, just before sunset.  Was setting up and testing the Ha filter on a shorter FL scope when I saw this outbreak occurring.  Very rapid.  Of particular note were a half dozen or so very bright, very small spots that brightened and faded in less than a minute as the main plasma body dissipated – frame 8 shows a couple of the brighter spots.  Lots of fireworks!

Thank you Jim! Amazing pictures!

The animation is too wide to fit in this blog, but you can still open it in the browser by clicking here.

Here is what Efrain told me in the mail:

I am submitting these images one is a still and the other a gif animation sequence consisting of three Lum only and seven RGB sets to make this animation with my DMK 21AF04.AS camera.  Jupiter’s two moons were transiting they are Ganymede and Io showing both showing albedo features on the surface and there casted shadows on the surface of the planet. Turbulance at the NEB with a very dark spot at the center of the swirl and the SEB with a pronounce light green dual rings a  possible re-awakening?

Many thanks go to Efrain for his continuous support on this blog!