Monday, 7 May 2018

Deep sky with a QHY 5L-ll-M and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

A Bresser Messier-AR-102-AS ED refractor was mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount. A QHY 5L-ll-M camera was placed at the prime focus. AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture 16 bit FITs files with matching dark frames.
M104 ans M64 were captured with 20 x 50s exposures M3 was captured with 40 x 16s exposures.
The Fits files were stacked with dark-frame correction in Deep Sky Stacker, running in Wine. The resulting images were processed in FITs Liberator and post processed in The Gimp 2.9.
With M3, the stacked image was processed by four transformations in FITs Liberator (arcsin, root, log(root) and log(log)). The images were converted to BMPs and combined with weighting in Andrew Sprott's Flexible Image Combine (FIC).

M3

M64

M104


FULL SIZE
M3

M64

M104