An SVBONY SV405CC OSC fitted with an SVBONY IR/UV cut filter was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a Skymax 127 Maksutov that was mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount.
The equipment used
AstroDmx Capture for Windows was used to capture two overlapping 1500-frame SER files of the 97.7% waxing Moon with the SV405CC uncooled.
An Acer Swift 3 Windows 11 laptop running AstroDMx Capture
Screenshots of AstroDMx Capture capturing 1500-frame lunar SER files at maximum resolution of 4144 x 2822
The best 75% of the frames in the SER files were stacked in Autostakkert!, stitched into a 2-pane mosaic by Microsoft ICE, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post-processed in the Gimp 2.10.30.
ALLOW TIME FOR THE LARGE LUNAR IMAGE TO LOAD
97.7% waxing, Moon
The centre left of the image shows Craters Copernicus, Kepler, Aristarchus and Herodotus, with Schröter's Valley and the lunar swirl Reiner Gamma.
The SV405CC OSC is a high-resolution camera well suited to capturing high-resolution lunar images in addition to its primary role as a Deep Sky OSC.
AstroDMx Capture can be downloaded HERE.
AstroDMx Capture is available for Windows, macOS, Linux including Raspberry Pi OS and ChromeOS.
