AstroDMx Capture was used with an SV705C OSC 12 bit, uncooled colour CMOS camera and a StellaMira 66mm APO doublet refractor with field flattener and a ZWO EAF. An Altair 2” magnetic filter holder version 2 containing an LPRO-MAX filter was placed in the optical train.
The equipment as monitored by a network camera
The equipment was mounted on a Celestron AVX GOTO mount. An SVBONY SV165 guide-scope fitted with a QHY-5II-M guide camera was mounted on the imaging scope. An INDI server was running on the imaging Linux computer indoors. The guide camera was connected by USB to another Linux computer indoors running PHD2 autoguiding software via the INDI server. The mount was controlled by AstroDMx Capture via the INDI server and the focuser with a hand controller.
Screenshot of PHD2 auto-guiding
AstroDMx Capture slewed the scope to the star Deneb and plate-solved to centre it. A Bahtinov mask was used to enable Deneb to be brought into sharp focus.
95 minutes worth of RAW 5 minutes exposures were capture along with dark-frames, Flat-frames, Drak-Flats and Bias frames.
The data were stacked and part processed in PixInsight and further processed in GraXpert, Siril, SetiAstroSuitePro and Gimp
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture saving RAW data using live-stacking to improve the preview.
Negative preview
The East Veil nebula
A PixInsight Cosmic Photons script was used to construct a Herzprung Russel diagram of the stars in the field of view.
This test was done specifically to test the Sony IMX585 CMOS sensor with the StellaMira scope in preparation for possible future implementation of equipment using a variation of this sensor.
