New cameras available to amateur astro-photographers

Space: the final frontier. And if you want to catch a good glimpse of it, your bank account needs to be equally as expansive. Not anymore, thanks to the availability of The Imaging Source's affordable gear for amateur astro-photographers.

Take images of the night sky – including close-up shots of the moon and planets in our solar system – with a few new low-noise and low-price telescope cameras from The Imaging Source, the maker of imaging hardware and software for astronomy lovers. From US $345.00 you can be capturing out of this world high-quality images.

Shipping in blue and black anodized aluminum and zinc housing, these telescope cameras measure 50 mm x 56 mm and weigh only 260 grams; the nose piece (included) mounts onto the front of the telescope camera while on the rear is a USB 2.0 and FireWire connector to record what you see.

Monochrome and colour models are available, in one of three resolutions: 640x480, 1024x768 and 1280x960 pixels. But each of these cameras deploy low noise CCD chips from Sony, which have an exposure time of up to 60 minutes and a maximum frame rate of up to 60 fps.

Each telescope cameras ships with "IC Capture.AS" software, allowing image sequences and singular images to be saved to a hard drive and lets the user toy with camera parameters, such as exposure, sensitivity and frame rate.

More info is at The Imaging Source website.

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