Multi-star pulse-auto-guided deep sky objects with AstroDMx Capture and PHD2

Multi-star auto-guiding is a feature that was put into PHD2 in December 2020. We have used two mounts, and two cameras to experiment with this feature on two separate nights.

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Full details of the imaging of M51, the Whirlpool galaxy, plus other images can be found HERE

AstroDMx Capture for Linux and an Atik 314L mono, 16-bit CCD camera were used to capture the image data

M51

Full details of the imaging of M48, part of Markarian's Chain, and M3 plus other images can be found HERE

AstroDMx Capture for macOS and a ZWO ASI178MC 14-bit OSC CMOS camera were used to capture the image data.

M48

Part of Markarian's chain of galaxies

M3

Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin