29 April - Ascom Driver

Ascom drivers for all Atik 16 bit cameras are now on our Download section.

21st December - New Products.

We have been working hard to bring you some new products.  You can read all about them below.

• A 2 Megapixel version of the 314E - called the Atik 320E.
• Our new filterwheel and off axis guider.
• The Atik 383L+ a 8 Megapixel camera using the Kodak KAF 8300
   

27th October - Beta 1.1 Version of Dawn

Development of the Dawn Image Processing software continues.  New features include
1. A new help system
2. A new divide action for performing flat-field correction
3. Keyboard controls for zooming and panning the image display
4. An option to save images in some popular formats (bitmap, tiff and jpeg)
5. A new and more convenient installer.

  The Dawn page is here.

29th November - 2010 Imaging Competition

This has proven extremely popular in the past and we hope this year will see a record number of entries.  Apart from the chance to win a prize its a great opportunity for Atik owners to show the astro imaging community what we can do.  Imaging Competition.

27th October - Beta Version of Dawn

Dawn has reached the stage of its first Beta.  Do give this software a try, at the moment it can dark correct, flat field, align and combine.  Indeed everything you may need to process a monochrome image.  The Dawn page is here.

27th October - Beta Version of Dawn

Dawn has reached the stage of its first Beta.  Do give this software a try, at the moment it can dark correct, flat field, align and combine.  Indeed everything you may need to process a monochrome image.  The Dawn page is here.

27th October - Atik USA Launched

We are very happy to announce the launch of Atik USA to promote and support our cameras in America.  Atik USA is based in Federick Maryland and is led by the well known astro imager Warren Keller.  Click here to see the Atik USA site.

14th October - CCD courses at Les Granges

Les Granges is a Gite in Southern France offering visitors the opportunity to do some astronomy and astro photography under dark skies.  The facility is run by keen astronomer Olly Penrice and uses Atik cameras.  Olly is now offering CCD image courses where people can learn or brush up their astro photography skills.  Read more on the Les Granges site.  

15th July - Vista 64 Bit drivers

Increasing new computers are using 64 bit operating system in order to use larger amounts of memory.  To support this trend we now have Vista 64 drivers for all the current Atik range of cameras.  They can be downloaded from our downloads page.

28th May  - Alpha version of Processing Package Announced

Atik are embarking on an ambitious project to provide an fully featured image processing package for Atik customers.  While the full program will not be ready for several months we will be posting early versions to this web page to allow you to see how we are progressing.

22 April - New camera announced.

From May 2009, a version of the popular Aik 314L will be available with full temperature regulation and feedback.  This will allow users to set a target temperature for the cameras to cool the CCD to, and the camera will report the actual temperature to the computer.  The camera also features enhanced cooling and extra ventilation holes in the case.  Prices are expected to be around 60 Euros/Pounds more than the current 314L.

27th March  - Online shop

Atik can now supply customers in the UK direct.  Vince will be happy to talk over any question you may have about Atik cameras and payment can be by cheque or cards.  Link to shop

1st March - Jonathan Burch joins Atik.

We are delighted to announce that Jonathan Burch has joined the Atik team to develop some exciting new software applications.  Jonathan has spent most of his career working on software for astronomy and space applications, initially at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, where he was involved in commissioning the William Herschel Telescope, and then at the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma. After this he worked on satellite observing systems for several years before joining Atik.

9th February - Astrofest London

Thanks to everybody who visited our room at Astrofest this weekend.  Despite warnings of travel problems from recent snow the show was very well attended.  As well as displaying the full range of Atik cameras we also had over 150 pictures from the imaging competition.  Also we showed  a prototype of a high frame rate camera.  This was streaming images digitised to 16bits at over 20 frames per second.  We hope to have this camera ready later this year. 
We took a few photos of our display just after we have set up on Thursday.

Pedro looking at the photo from the competition
The display with the high speed camera

10th January.  Lite version of the Atik 4000.

In response to customer wishes for a cheaper large format camera without the advanced cooling of the Atik4000 we are producing the Atik 4000LE.  This is available immediately and details are HERE.

1st January 2009 - Atik has announced a range of offers a bundles on cameras and filter wheels.

• The Atik Imaging System comprising of an Atik314L a USB Filter wheel, a full set of filters and an Atik 16IC guide camera.
   
• Half price electronic filterwheels when purchased with an Atik camera.
   
• Price reduction on the Atik 314L
   
• Money off an Atik 16IC when bought as a guide camera with a 314L or large format camera.

For all the above please contact an Atik dealer.

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