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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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.