Wednesday 3 March 2021

Testing AstroDMx Capture and an SV305 camera with MX Linux

With a virtually full Moon in the sky, a William Optics ZenithStar 66 SD Apochromatic refractor was mounted on a Celestron AVX mount and an SVBONY SV305 camera was placed at the focus.

AstroDMx Capture for Linux running in MX Linux was used to capture two overlapping 2000-frame SER files

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Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture capturing a 2000 Frame SER file in MX Linux


The best 50% of the frames in the SER files were stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in The Gimp and Affinity Photo, and the images stitched in Microsoft ICE.

The Final image


Final image with enhanced colour saturation to reveal more of the mineralogical variation in the Moon's surface

The SV305 once again proves it's worth in combination with a short-tube apochromatic refractor and yet another distribution of Linux; MX Linux.