Hello Pierre, thanks for accepting our interview invitation. Congratulations on winning the ASIWEEK competition in week #07 2023! Q1: Could you please make a self-introduction first? Thank you ZWO, I’m glad to win this week! I am Pierre GILET, I am 38 years old, and I live in Seignelay, a small town near Auxerre in […]
By: Rouzbeh Bidshahri Large aperture reflectors with long focal lengths can be great for imaging small objects. Many SCTs, RCs, IDKs, and CDKs have focal lengths greater than 2000mm, but they do require guide cameras for autoguiding most of the time. ZWO recently introduced a planetary camera, the ASI432MM, that seemed to me like an interesting […]
Let’s talk about the new release of the ASIAIR software and run through some of its new features today. As you may have noticed, version 2.0 is a really big update. Not only the interface design changed, also new features such as community and DSO & planetary stacking were also added to this version. Now […]
—— Wrote by Yixing Zhang, translated by ZWO team. In 2022, ZWO released a new monochrome planetary camera, ASI432MM. It features the global shutter and especially suitable for solar imaging, as ZWO stated in the product description. Yet somehow it seems that solar imaging is not that popular compared to other sorts of astrophotography, such […]
For a long period of time, astrophotographers have to face the dilemma between spending a long time flattening the steep learning curve of astrophotography and just giving up to let go. The software too complicated to start with, the tedious imaging settings and post processing and so many other problems are what astrophotographers deal with […]