Saturday, 2 May 2020

M13 with AstroDMx Capture for Linux and Solus Linux

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount. A ZWO178MC 14-bit colour camera, fitted with a 0.5x focal reducer was placed at the Cassegrain focus.

A Thinkpad X230 laptop running Solus was used to capture images of M13 using AstroDMx Capture for Linux.

The equipment

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing data on M13

Thirty 30s exposures were captured with matching dark-frames.
The images were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and post-processed in the Gimp 2.10

M13

Solus is not a Linux distribution that I like, but for running AstroDMx Capture for Linux, it did the job fine.