Equipment used
Macbook Air laptop running AstroDMx Capture for macOS for all imaging.
Fedora Linux laptop running PHD2, multi-star pulse auto-guiding.
Celestron AVX GOTO mount.
SVBONY SV165 Guide-scope D=30mm F=120mm.
Bresser Messier-AR-102-xs/460 ED, f/4.5 refractor modified for motor focus.
QHY 5L-II-M guide camera.
Atik 314E OSC, cooled 16-bit CCD imaging camera.
JJC DHS-1 USB Lens Heater Strip Dew Remover on the imaging scope and the guide scope.
Objects for imaging
Globular cluster M3
The hamburger galaxy NGC3628
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The imaging equipment
An INDI server was run with PHD2 on the Fedora Linux laptop to do multi-star, pulse auto-guiding
Screenshot of PHD2 multi-star, pulse auto-guiding
Multi-star PHD2 auto-guiding was used during the capture of the M3 and NGC3628 data.
AstroDMx Capture for macOS was used to capture 10 x 2min FITS exposures of M3 with matching dark-frames using the Atik 314E OSC CCD camera. Bias frames and flat-fields were also used.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for macOS capturing images of M3
The images were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker using dark frames, bias frames and flat-fields, and post processed in Affinity Photo, The Gimp 2.10, Neat Image and Topaz Sharpen AI.
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Globular cluster M3
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for macOS capturing data on NGC3628
The images were stacked in Affinity Photo using dark frames, bias frames and flat-fields, and post processed in Affinity Photo, The Gimp 2.10, Neat Image and Topaz Sharpen AI.
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NGC3628, the Hamburger galaxy
The old Atik 314E OSC camera worked well with AstroDMx Capture and the Bresser Messier-AR-102-xs/460 ED, f/4.5 refractor. Future imaging sessions will use a UV/IR cut filter, as one is not fitted as standard to this camera.
