Tuesday, June 16, 2020

The globular cluster M13 with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

A ZWO ASI178MC camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of a Celestron Omni XLT 150 mounted on a Celestron AVX EQ, GOTO mount.

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The equipment used


AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture 40 x 30s exposures of M13 with matching dark-frames.

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing data on M13

The best 38 frames were dark-frame corrected and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, and post-processed in The Gimp 2.10 and Neat Image.

M13

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin

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