I have previously mentioned that Nicola was researching the possibility of implementing the Raspberry Pi Camera (In this case the HQ PiCamera) in AstroDMx Capure for the Raspberry Pi. In that post I showed that she has had the camera streaming in the software.
Now she has implemented most of the camera controls and AstroDMx Capture for the Raspberry Pi can capture data at some resolutions.
Screenshot showing the camera streaming data from the camera looking at an aquarium
Some aquatic snail eggs were placed on a cavity slide and imaged with the HQ PiCam and AstroDMx Capture. The eggs were then returned to an aquarium in which there are no fish.
The HQ PiCamera mounted on a trinocular research grade microscope
Cropped snapshot of a snail egg captured with AstroDMx Capture
Screenshot showing a SER movie file captured by AstroDMx Capture playing in SER player
Animation of a snail egg captured by AstroDMx Capture as a SER file
We are now waiting for a clear night with the Moon visible, to capture some lunar data.
The implementation is so far a partial implementation. The data captured are 8-bit and the maximum exposure so far is 1 second. It is possible that when one or two small issues are sorted out that this version may be released with the partial camera functionality that it has, but that will not happen until we have done a lot more testing. In the future, Nicola will return to this camera after she has completed some other aspects of her astronomical imaging work.
AstroDMx Capture for Windows, macOS or Linux (Including Raspberry Pi) can be downloaded freely here:
