Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Adjusting the azimuth clutch on a Skywatcher Star Discovery mount.

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Unlike the Synscan AZ, GOTO mounts, the Star Discovery Mount has FreedomFind™ dual encoder technology. This allows the mount to be pushed ma...
Monday, 11 June 2018

M17 with AstroDMx Capture for Linux and a QHY 5L-II-M

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An f/5, Skywatcher Explorer 130 P-DS Newtonian Was mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount. A QHY 5L-II-M camera was placed at the Newton...
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Nature study with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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A Zoom TV lens was fitted to a DFK mounted on a small tripod and the camera was aimed at an active bird nesting box. DFK with a zoom TV l...
Saturday, 26 May 2018

ChromeOS, Android and the SVBONY SV105 camera

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There are two operating systems based on the Linux kernel that are not usually thought of as Linux. This is because, whilst they are both ba...
Thursday, 24 May 2018

High Definition Lunar image with SVBONY T7 W2568A camera and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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A low-cost SVBONY T7 W2568 high speed camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a Skymax 127 Maksutov mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ GOT...
Monday, 21 May 2018

Deep Sky with the SVBONY T7 W2568A camera, AstroDMx Capture for Linux and a 10 inch, f/4.8 Newtonian

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An SVBONY T7 W2568A camera was placed at the Newtonian focus of an Orion Europa, 10 inch, f/4.8 Newtonian. Exposures were captured in RAW 8...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

High resolution Lunar imaging with an SVBONY T7 W2568A high speed camera, a 10" Newtonian and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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An SVBONY T7 W2568A   high speed camera was placed at the Newtonian Focus of an Orion, 10 inch, f/4.8 Newtonian. AstroDMx Capture for Linux ...
Saturday, 19 May 2018

ZWO Gamma Gone! but not quite!

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Gamma has been removed from the ZWO SDK! This means that ZWO cameras will no longer provide a control for gamma. At first sight this migh...
Monday, 14 May 2018

First Light testing of the SVBONY version of the T7 W2568A high speed astrocamera as a Linux astro-imager with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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This is a low priced astronomy camera that is a suitable introduction to astronomical imaging; not only of the Solar system but also some ...
Monday, 7 May 2018

Deep sky with a QHY 5L-ll-M and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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A Bresser Messier-AR-102-AS ED refractor was mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount. A QHY 5L-ll-M camera was placed at the prime focus....

Jupiter with an SVBONY SV105 camera, a Skymax 127 and AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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An SVBONY SV105 camera was placed at the Cassegrain focus of a Skymax 127 Maksutov. AstroDMx Capture for Linux was used to capture a 3 min S...
Tuesday, 1 May 2018

Bug in the recent Linux kernels affecting Video 4 Linux

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There is a bug that has been introduced into the Linux kernel since April 12, 2018. The bug manifests itself as each V4L camera on the USB ...
Sunday, 29 April 2018

The terminator of the 98.5% waxing, gibbous Moon with AstroDMx Capture, a SVBONY SV105 camera and a Bresser Messier-AR-102XS ED refractor

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An SVBONY SV105 camera was fitted with a Baader green continuum filter and a x2 Barlow using the refractor at f/9. AstroDMx Capture for Linu...
Friday, 27 April 2018

Modifying a Celestron Omni XLT 150 Newtonian for using a light pollution (or other) filter when a DSLR is directly connected to the telescope.

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The Omni XLT 150 f/5 Newtonian, shares a problem with a number of other Newtonians in that when a DSLR camera is connected to the focuser vi...