Box-mounted Raspberry Pi camera module, a Skymax 127 and Tycho

A Waveshare 5Mp Raspberry Pi camera module with a OV5647 CMOS sensor was mounted in a project box and a connector was used to connect the short ribbon cable from the camera, to a 1m ribbon cable from the Raspberry Pi 3 running Ubunto MATE Linux.

Box-mounter PiCamera

The camera was placed at the prime focus of a Skymax 127 Maksutov mounted on an EQ mount.

Using Python 3 software that I have written to capture .bmp images, I captured 100 .bmp images at 1024 x 768 resolution, of the Tycho region of the Moon. The images were registered and stacked in the Linux application lxnstack. The resulting image was wavelet processed in Registax 6 running in Wine via Exagear, and post processed in the Gimp, all on the Raspberry Pi. The wavelet processing was the only part of the process that ran slowly.

The Tycho region