AstroDMx Capture for Linux was installed. An SVBONY SV305 camera, fitted with a light pollution filter was placed at the Newtonian focus of a Skywatcher Explorer 130 PDS 130mm, f/5 Newtonian, mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO EQ mount.
The scope was aimed at M32/43 and AstroDMx Capture was launched.
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Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing data on the Orion nebula.
The next experiment was to connect the camera to another laptop. This laptop was running Windows 10. An Oracle VM VirtualBox was installed in Windows and within The virtual machine, Lubuntu Linux was installed, and within Lubuntu, AstroDMx Capture for Linux was installed. The camera that previously was connected to the Linux Lite computer was connected to the Lubuntu virtual machine. The camera was passed through the USB to the VM in the VM device settings. AstroDMx Capture for Linux was launched in the VM with the same settings as before and a screenshot was taken.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux running in the virtual machine
The Windows 10 desktop and taskbar can be seen, and covering most of the Windows desktop is the Lubuntu desktop. The Lubuntu desktop was decreased in size just a little so that the screenshot would show the Windows desktop and recycle bin.
The Windows machine is a medium spec ASUS X552E with a quad-core AMD A4 CPU and Radeon HD 8670M 1GB graphics. It ran the VM without any problems. It is, therefore, possible to run AstroDMx Capture for Linux in a Windows machine that is running a virtual machine with a lightweight Linux distribution such as Lubuntu as used here.
