In this short tutorial, we will show very simple image processing by using Astro Pixel Processor. You will learn how to create a Bad Pixel Map and master calibration frames, how to register and normalize images, and how to create an integrated stack of data into a final image. The processing method was done on…
Discovery Astrophotography with ZWO ASTRO
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ASI174 and ASI290 mini camera have very beautiful outlooks, small size, lighter weight, this is not a big deal.
We should consider much more...
How to choose a good guide camera?
Many people may say : it must be small, suitable for different equipments(guide scope, OAG), stable working.
Yes, I think…
Big Big news! ZWO offically release two brand new full frame cameras today! They are ASI094MC Pro and ASI128MC Pro . These two cameras integrate full-frame sensor and have different features. As the flagship products of ASI series, 094 and 128 have super nice performance and reasonable price. The most important is, they are…
Total Solar Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017, a solar eclipse occured and the entire sequence of totality was visible from North America. For amateur astronomers, this was a big event.
How does it happen?
When the moon passes between sun and earth, and blocks all or part of the sun, a solar eclipse occurs as the moon’s…
At our ZWO lab, we testing very new astro images processing software Astro Pixel Processor (APP). APP has many very interesting features and some of them are very unique. Many of our customers bought color DSO cameras and the very first step for all those users during image processing is choosing the right debayer algorithm.…
In this short article, we compare two very popular cameras, ASI174 and ASI290. Particularly, we were testing the effect of the pixel size of each ASI camera. ASI174 has 5.86µm and ASI209 only 2.9µm of the pixel size. Why is pixel size so important? Camera with smaller pixel size adjusted at telescope with short focal…
Astrography under a good astronomical seeing is the main desire for astronomers all around the world. Seeing is the most important factor for DSO or planetary image quality. Practically all professional observatories are located on locations with sub-second seeing, where seeing values are below 1 arcsec, but amateur astronomers are doing astrography under the sky where is the common seeing between 2…
ZWO team in April 2017 visited two very popular exhibitions in US, Northeast Astro-Imaging Conference (NEAIC) and Northeast Astronomy Forum (NEAF). On both exhibition floors, we showed our products; planetary cameras , cooled cameras, filters,filter wheels and our wide range of accessories for astrography.
On exhibitions, we also show two new ZWO products. We presented our Android application ASICAP which enable ASI…
If you are looking for the mount that is small, flexible, quick to assemble, portable and enough precise for wide field photography with lens for trips under the dark sky, here is an article about it. The LighTrack II, a portable mount was made by FORNAX, a Hungarian company who is also running a very successful science…
As we know all ASI cameras enable us small settings to adjust through ASCOM camera driver such as Gain and Offset. In this short article, we will show you a few test images of how cameras setting affects your captured image. For this test, we used ASI1600MM-Cool and ASI071MC-Cool, two very popular ZWO DSO cameras.…
We at ZWO got some great news for you guys, where we announce that the ASI USB3.0 CCDs support Android devices. You attach the camera to the device's USB and make sure that the device supports OTG.
Although the app is still in Alpha stage, with loads of bugs, crashes and misspellings, we strive to…
December 24 is Christmas Eve in the Western countries.But it is also a nice day for us,because the 7th Yunnan Star Party would be held this night.
In the afternoon,we arrived the Blueberry Manor in Kunming (the provincial capital of Yunnan). On the road, we enjoyed the scenery along the way.
When we got the…