This article shows results from AstroDMx Capture for Windows and
AstroDMx Capture for FreeBSD
In all of these tests the camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a Skymax 127 mounted on a Celestron AVX mount.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows and an SV305 camera
A 1000-frame SER file was captured at maximum resolution of 1920 x 1080 of a region of the 51.4% waxing Moon.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing lunar data
The best 90% of the frames captured were aligned and stacked in Autostakkert! The resulting image was wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.
Processed image
A 2500 frame SER file was captured with a Region of interest (ROI) of 1440 x 1056.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing a ROI and using a reticle
The best 50% of frames were aligned and stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in Affinity Photo and the Gimp 2.10
Processed ROI
AstroDMx Capture for Windows and a QHY 5L-II-M camera
2000 frame SER files were captured of two regions of the 65.3% waxing Moon.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing lunar data
The best 50% of the frames captured were aligned and stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.
Screenshot of processed image
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing data
The best 50% of the frames captured were aligned and stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10.
Processed image
AstroDMx Capture for FreeBSD and a DMK 21AU04.AS camera
2,500 frame SER files were captured of the 54.1% waxing Moon. The best 50% of the frames were stacked in Autostakkert! running in Wine and wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 also running in Wine. The final image was post processed in the Gimp 2.10 running natively.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for FreeBSD capturing data
Processed image
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for FreeBSD capturing data
Processed image
These results show that the AstroDMx Capture software is functional on Windows and FreeBSD as well as, we have previously shown, on the original Linux and on MacOS. Nicola is sorting out issues with the single code base that will ultimately make the maintenance of the project code, more manageable.
FreeBSD has been included because it has been possible to implement DSLR cameras as well as the Imaging source DMK and DFK. There are no SDKs available for FreeBSD, but nontheless, the cameras that Nicola has implemented make FreeBSD a viable imaging platform.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS or Linux (Including Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded freely here:
