Thursday 2 May 2019

The Black Eye Galaxy with a tethered DSLR and AstroDMx Capture for MacOS

A Canon EOS 4000D DSLR camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of a Skywatcher Explorer 130 PDS 130mm, f/5 Newtonian.

A MacBook running High Sierra and Nicola's AstroDMx Capture for MacOS was used to capture 18 x 60s exposures and 5 matching dark-frames as 16 bit Tiff files of M64, the Black Eye Galaxy from the tethered DSLR..

The best 17 frames were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker, Sequator and Autostakkert. The resulting images were processed in the Gimp, and Neat Image and then re-combined in Picture Window Pro at different image scales.





Tethering of DSLR cameras whose manufacturers support it will be a valuable feature in AstroDMx Capture for Linux and MacOS