A Skywatcher Explorer 130 PDS 130mm, f/5 Newtonian was mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount. An SVBONY SV305 camera was placed at the Newtonian focus.
A Raspberry Pi 4B was running 64 bit Ubuntu MATE for the Pi. AstroDMx Capture for the Raspberry Pi was used to capture 30 x 60s exposures of M27, the Dumbbell nebula with matching dark-frames
The best 26 exposures were aligned and stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. The final image was post-processed in the Gimp 2.10, Affinity Photo, Neat Image and ACDSee.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for the Raspberry Pi capturing data on M27
The final image of M27
Once again, the SV305 worked nicely with the Raspberry Pi running a 64 bit operating system.
Even after a release of the software, the testing continues; looking for anomalies and possible bugs. The combination of the SV305 and AstroDMx Capture for the Raspberry Pi, is proving to be a very useful, low cost imaging platform.
Meanwhile Nicola continues to work on macOS and Windows versions of AstroDMx Capture.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS or Linux (Including Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded freely here:
