Saturday, 11 April 2020

C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) with AstroDMx Capture for Windows

A Bresser Messier-AR-102-AS f/45, ED refractor was mounted on an HEQ5 GOTO mount and a QHY 5L-II-M camera was placed at the prime focus.

AstroDMx Capture for Windows was used to capture 60s exposures of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS).

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing 16-bit (12-bit ADC) 
data on the comet


27 images were stacked in Registax 5.1, stacking on the comet
The star-trails indicate the movement of the comet over the 30 minutes of imaging.

The stacked images were post-processed in The Gimp 2.10, FitsWork and Neat Image.

Reprocessed image of the comet using a stack on the stars and 
combining comet data from the above stack.


The QHY camera was stable in AstroDMx Capture for Windows.