The Next Generation of Astronomy Cameras
About The Imaging Source and their astronomy products.
The Imaging Source manufacturers the DMK line of high-speed, low-noise astronomy cameras, ideal for capturing spectacular images of the night skies.
The DMK 21AF04.AS camera, for example, features a 1/4-inch Sony® CCD chip with a 640-by-480 array of 5.6 μm pixels capable of recording up to 60 uncompressed frames per second.
Other monochrome cameras are available with higher resolutions and larger CCD chips.
The Imaging Source manufacturers the DFK and DBK lines of high-speed, low-noise astronomy cameras, ideal for capturing spectacular images of the night skies.
The DFK 21AF04.AS camera, for example, features a 1/4-inch Sony® CCD chip with a 640-by-480 array of 5.6 μm pixels capable of recording up to 60 uncompressed frames per second.
Other color cameras - with and without IR cut filters - are available with higher resolutions and larger CCD chips.
All astronomy cameras, manufactured by The Imaging Source, ship with the camera control software IC Capture.AS:
- Set all camera parameters.
- View live image data stream.
- Save singular images as JPG and BMP.
- Capture image sequences.
- Write lossless, uncompressed AVIs.
- Load captured data into RegiStax.
- Supports Windows 2000, XP and Vista (32 bit & 64 bit).
The Imaging Source is a multi-national enterprise with branches in Charlotte (USA), Taipei (Taiwan) and Bremen (Germany). We have been manufacturing imaging products for scientific, industrial and medical applications for more than twenty years.
Recently, The Imaging Source has released a new line of cameras designed to meet the needs of amateur astronomers. The new astronomy cameras leverage the years of experience gathered in the aforementioned fields, to bring amateur astro-photographers highly affordable, robust and stable CCD imagers for their telescopes.