Lunar imaging with a little Python code

I set up the Celestron AVx mount with a Skymax 127 Maksutov. A DFK camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus and I tried out the latest version of my Python DFK AVI capture program running in the Thonny IDE on an Ubuntu 18.04 laptop. I managed to collect data on two overlapping regions of the 98.7% waning Moon before the gap in the clouds closed permanently. The results were stacked and wavelet processed in Registax 5.1, and the two resulting images stitched in Microsoft ICE.

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Two pane mosaic

Screenshots

Focusing on an enlarged review

Capturing an AVI

Focusing on an enlarged preview

Capturing an AVI

Steve Wainwright