Sunday 25 August 2019

Saturn with a DFK 21AU04.AS camera, Skymax 127 and some Python code

I have been writing Python code using OpenCV3 to capture images and AVIs from a DFK 21AU04.AS camera.
Using a Skymax 127 and a 2.5 x Barlow, an AVI of Saturn was captured using a Huffman lossless compression fourcc code. there is currently a problem using the uncompressed codec, which used to work but at the moment does not. This is not much of a problem as the compression used is lossless. The AVI produced was imported into VirtualDub running in Wine and saved as an uncompressed AVI which could then be read by Autostakkert!

Screenshot of the program running on an Ubuntu laptop, capturing an AVI of Saturn

Saturn, wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10