Saturday 9 April 2022

The SV305M Pro, AstroDMx Capture, A Raspberry Pi and a Skymax 127 Maksutov

A Skymax 127 Maksutov was  mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount and an SV305M Pro monochrome camera fitted with an SVBONY IR/UV cut filter was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a motor-focus modified Skymax 127.

AstroDMx Capture for Raspberry Pi OS, running on a Raspberry Pi 400 was used to capture a 2000-frame SER file of the 46% waxing Moon.

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Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture for Raspberry Pi OS capturing a lunar SER file


The best 80% of the frames in the SER file were stacked in Autostakkert!, wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post-processed in the Gimp 2.10.


The SV305M Pro worked well with the Raspberry Pi and AstroDMx Capture to produce a high resolution detailed image of the Theophilus region of the Moon.

AstroDMx Capture can be downloaded HERE.