Last month I used AstroDMx Capture for macOS with a 14-bit ZWO ASI178MC CMOS camera and a William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD Apochromatic refractor mounted on a Celestron AVX mount to image the Orion nebula.
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The Equipment used
150 x 15s exposures were captured, the best 135 were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and post processed in the Gimp, Affinity Photo, Topaz sharpen and Neat image.
The resulting image
Last night AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used with a 6-bit Atik 314L mono CCD camera fitted with a light pollution filter was used to capture FITS files of the Orion nebula using the same William Optics apochromatic refractor and Celestron AVx mount.
60 x 45s exposures and 40 x 15s exposures were captured with matching dark frames.
The preview controls were set to give a pleasing preview of the 16-bit images being captured.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Linux capturing FITS data on the Orion Nebula
The FITs files were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker and the resulting image was post processed in the Gimp 2.10
The Orion nebulae
Picture Window Pro 2.5 running in Wine was used to overlay the luminance data from the monochrome image over the Chrominance data of the colour image, blending the images using shift, rotate and scale.
The final image was post processed using Photoshop elements and EasyFoto by softmaker.
The final image of the Orion nebula
The total exposure time for this image was 1.48 hours.
