Tuesday 18 August 2015

M57 with the LN300 video camera and the 150mm Newtonian on a Star Discovery AZ GOTO mount

The LN300 video camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of the Star Discovery 150P, f/5 Newtonian. The camera was connected to a Windows 10 laptop via a Digital Climax VCap303 capture card. 300 x 5s exposures of M57 were captured using SharpCap. 100 x 5s dark-frames were also captured. The best 240 exposures (20 min total exposure) were dark-frame corrected, registered, derotated and stacked in Deep Sky Stacker. The resulting image was post processed in Photoshop:
M57


The live screen view was pleasing and shows that this is very suitable for viewing and sharing the view as an electronic, deep sky eyepiece.

Live View whilst capturing in SharpCap