Venus with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on an HEQ5 GOTO mount. A ZWO ASI178MC camera fitted with a 2.5 x Barlow was placed at the Cassegrain focus.

AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to  capture a 20,000 frame SER file of the 41% Venus with a region of interest of 640 x 480 at 250fps.

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Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing a SER file

The reticle  and region of interest nudge were used to keep Venus centred in the field of view.

The best 10% of the frames in the SER file were stacked in Autostakkert! 3.1 and the resulting image was post-processed in The Gimp 2.10.

Venus

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin