First Light for the SVBONY SC571CC 16 bit OSC camera

Nicola has implemented the SVBONY SC571CC 16 bit OSC camera in AstroDMx Capture.

For this first light test we used an Askar 71F quadruplet apochromatic astrograph refractor paired with an SVBONY SC571CC 16 bit OSC camera. The scope was fitted with an iOptron iEAF motor focuser and an Altair V2 magnetic 2” filter holder containing an Altair Quadband filter. 

The equipment

An SVBONY SV165 guide scope with a natively connected QHY-5II-M guide camera was used for PHD2 multistar pulse auto-guiding via an INDI server running on a Fedora Linux mini computer. The auto-guiding was controlled by a separate Linux laptop indoors. AstroDMx Capture sent the scope/mount to the star Arcturus which was used to focus the scope with a Bahtinov mask. The iOptron iEAF was controlled by AstroDMx Capture via the INDI server. 

AstroDMx Capture for Linux x86_64 running on an Ubuntu Linux mini computer was used to capture the image data as FITS images with flats and matching darks, dark-flats and bias frames. The SC571CC 16 bit OSC camera produces images of dimensions 6224 x 4168 pixels and has square 3.76 micrometre pixels. It has a 26MP APS-C IMX571 BSI sensor with dimensions of 23.4mm x 15.7mm (28.3mm diagonal), dual-stage TEC cooling and zero amp-glow as well as a variable heater for the sensor optical window.

Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture capturing RAW FITS data of the Eagle nebula

Negative preview

11 x 5 minute exposures of The Eagle nebula were used. (The quantity of data was limited by clouds moving in). The data were stacked and part processed in PixInsight and further processed in GraXpert, SetiAstroSuitePro and Gimp3.

Final image of the Eagle nebula

Click on the image to get a closer view.

This first light session demonstrated that the SC571CC 16 bit OSC camera is extremely capable. It is a good match for the Askar 71F and the field was flat right to the corners of the image. We look forward to testing the implementation in AstroDMx Capture for Windows x86_64, Windows ARM, macOS x86_64 and Apple silicon as well as x86_64 Linux and Linux ARM.  All of these versions should be released within days.