11% crescent Venus with a DFK 21AU04.AS CCD camera and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on a Celestron AVX mount. A DFK 21AU04.AS CCD camera with a 2x Barlow lens screwed on the camera nosepiece was combined with a 2.5x Barlow and placed at the Cassegrain focus of the Maksutov.

AstroDMx Capture for Linux was running on a Fedora Linux laptop.

A 10,000-frame SER file of the 11%  crescent Venus was captured at 60 fps. To ensure the fastest possible frame-rate, AstroDMx Capture was set to fully debayer the screen display, but to capture an undebayered SER file.

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Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing a 10,000 frame SER file 

from the DFK camera

The best 100 frames from the 10,000 frame SER file were stacked in Autostakkert!, and post processed in the Gimp 2.10

11% crescent Venus

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin