Until now we have been working with a pre-production prototype of the SVBONY SV305. Nicola has implemented this camera in AstroDMx Capture in Linux X64 and Linux for the Raspberry Pi (32 bit and 64 bit), and Windows. The tests reported here are with the production model of the SV305, which has newer firmware and works with the SDK for the platforms mentioned above.
A Celestron 8” SCT was mounted on an AVX GOTO mount. The scope was fitted with a 2x Barlow and an SVBONY SV305 camera was attached.
Mars was imaged using AstroDMx Capture for Windows using a region of interest of 800 x 600. A frame-rate of just under 100fps was used to capture a 5min Time-Limited SER file of 27,000 frames.
SER Player was used to process the file for gamma and gain, and re-save as a SER file. The processed and the unprocessed SER files were stacked in Autostakkert! 3. The best 15% of the frames in the processed SER file were stacked and the best 20% of the frames in the unprocessed SER file were also stacked. The resulting images were wavelet processed in Registax 6, post-processed and combined in the Gimp 2.10.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing a SER file of Mars
The final image of Mars
Again, these results show that the SVBONY SV305 camera is a very capable device at a very reasonable price and that it has been implemented very well in AstroDMx Capture.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS or Linux (Including Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded freely here:
