Thursday, 16 April 2020

37.3% Venus with a ZWO ASI178MC camera and AstroDMx Capture for Linux.

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on an HEQ5. A ZWO ASI178MC 14-bit camera, fitted with an SVBONY IR/UV cut filter and a Televue 3x Barlow.

AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture a 10,000-frame 16-bit SER file of Venus using a Region Of Interest of 800 x 600 with a reticle to facilitate position keeping. Region of Interest nudge was used to keep Venus close to the centre of the field of view during capture.

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing the SER file of Venus.


The best 10% of the frames in the SER file were stacked in Autostakkert! 3.1, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post-processed in The Gimp 2.10

37.3% Venus