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ASI174/ASI290 Mini Camera – Upgrade Your Guiding System

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 thoes are basic demand

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ZWO New Full-frame Cameras: ASI094 Pro and ASI128 Pro Released!

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 limited editions! ASI094MC

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Eclipse 2017 – ASI Camera photography show

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

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Which debayer algorithm is the best for ASI cameras?

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.

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The pixel size comparison of two ASI cameras – Sunspot AR2665

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

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Seeing in DSO astrography does really matter

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

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Cooled ASI camera setting in ASCOM driver

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.

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Running ASI USB3.0 Cameras under Android device

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

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Jupiter in RGB and CH4 with ASI224MC

Martin captured Jupiter in RGB and CH4 with ASI224 camera attached on big 444-mm Dobson. What Martin said about this amazing photos? The methane image was taken during a period of good seeing with my home-built 444-mm Dobsonian working on my equatorial platform and at f18- a slightly shorter f-ratio than I would use for RGB imaging.

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ZWO 3 new USB3.0 color cameras have come!

3 new ASI cameras has come: ASI224MC ASI185MC ASI178MC. This cameras have Low Noise, High Sensitivity and Fast Speed. These cameras are the best planetary imaging camera in the world and the cooled version won’t be far away 😉 For more info and orders please visit products pages.

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First light M16 with ZWO 153F4 newton

First light M16 with ZWO 153F4 newton and ATIK One ZWO 153F4 Carbon Newton: Diameter:6″ (153mm) Focal ratio: F4 Weight(including handle, dovetail and rings): 3.8kg (8.3lb) Focuser: 10:1 dual speed focuser back focus: 65mm (+-5mm) secondary size: 64mm PV of the primary mirror: < 1/10λ (Surface PV) Free shipping through EMS now (limited time and

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