Sunday, August 30, 2020

AstroDMx Capture, a Raspberry Pi 4B and an SV305Pro Camera

 A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on a Celestron AVX mount and an SV305 Pro USB 3.0 camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus.

32 bit Ubuntu MATE Linux was installed on a Raspberry Pi 4B and Nicola's AstroDMx Capture for Raspberry Pi was installed.

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Screenshot of Ubuntu MATE on a Raspberry Pi 4B


The Raspberry Pi Setup



1000-frame SER files were captured of various parts of the 89% waxing, gibbous Moon. The best 80% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture gathering data of the Palus Somni region as a SER file


The Palus Somi region


AstroDMx Capture gathering data as a SER file of the Tycho region


Tycho region


The snapshot function was used to capture a single, high quality TIFF image of the Tycho region


Nicola is now very close to a release of the software.

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin

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