Tuesday 24 March 2020

The Orion Nebulae with AstroDMx Capture for Windows

A Bresser AR 102xs f/4.5, ED refractor was mounted on a Celestron AVX, GOTO mount. A Canon EOS 4000D DSLR camera was placed at the prime focus by means of the 2" adapter.

Using AstroDMx Capture for Windows, the tethered Canon EOS 4000D, controlled by AstroDMx Capture for Windows was used to capture 10 x 4s, 30 x 30s and 15 x 60s exposures at ISO 3200 as camera RAW files, with matching dark-frames.

The frames were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker using Auto adaptive weighted average for the light frames. The Image was post processed in the Gimp 2.10 and Neat Image.

M42/43 and the Running Man nebula

Being able to treat the 14-bit DSLR as a regular astronomy camera controlled by AstroDMx Capture for Windows is a huge advantage. There is still some work to do, but a release will be made in the not to distant future. It is possible that the macOS version will be released at the same time, as well as a service release for Linux, now that Nicola has unified the code-base for the AstroDMx Capture project.