A QHY 5L-II-M camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a Skymax 127 scope mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount.
5000-frame SER files were captured of various regions of the 96.8% waning Moon using AstroDMx Capture for MacOS and a MacBook running High Sierra.
The imaging setup
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for MacOS streaming data
The best 40% of frames in the SER files were stacked with Autostakkert! 3 and wavelet processed in Registax 5.1, both running in Wine. Two overlapping images were stitched in Panorama Stitcher and the final image post processed in the Gimp 2.10.
The Mare Crisium region
Mare Serenitatis region
The development of AstroDMx Capture for MacOS involves the refactoring of lots of code, and Nicola is taking advantage of this to develop the code simultaneously for MacOS and Linux, and where possible, improving the performance of the software.
