Improving control of QHY cameras in AstroDMx Capture for Win/Mac/Linux

The initial testing of Nicola's re-written QHY SDK interface code to fix a QHY SDK exposure-length bug was done with AstroDMx Capture for Windows. However, the improvements are also in the Linux and macOS versions. This will be available in the maintenance release that will shortly be made for Linux.

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount. A QHY5L-II-M camera fitted with a Schüler 850nm IR Pass filter was placed at the Cassegrain focus. The filter was used to image the Moon in the daytime sky.

AstroDMx Capture for Windows was used to capture three, 2,500-frame SER files of overlapping regions of the 24.1% waxing, crescent Moon

The best 2000 frames from each SER file were stacked in Autostakkert!2, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post-processed in the Gimp 2.10. The three images were stitched in Microsoft ICE.

3 pane lunar mosaic

Nicola continues to work on AstroDMx Capture for Windows with a unified code base for all three platforms.