Monday 7 December 2020

Maintenance Release for AstroDMx Capture for all platforms

 Maintenance Release of AstroDMx Capture 



Nicola has made a maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS, Linux, including the 32-bit and 64-bit ARM versions for the Raspberry Pi.

This release fixes an issue that could impact long exposures.

The new version of AstroDMx Captue can be downloaded HERE.


Recent Results with the SVBONY SV305

Below is a Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing 30s exposures of M42/43 as 16-bit Fits files. The scope was an f/5.5, 80mm, ED refractor.


Final image of The Orion Nebula


Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Windows capturing a 2000-frame SER file of the 75.5% waning Moon using the same 80mm, ED refractor.


The Moon was imaged in two overlapping panes. The best 50% of the frames in the SER files were stacked in Autostakkert! The resulting images were stitched in Microsoft ICE, wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 and post-processed in Affinity Photo and the Gimp.

The 75.5% waning Moon