Tuesday, 31 December 2019

The Orion nebula with AstroDMx Capture for Linux and the SVBONY SV305 camera

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The SVBONY SV305  camera is now implemented in AstroDMx Capture for Linux. Nicola has now released Version 0.66.1 the software as .deb; ....
Sunday, 29 December 2019

12% crescent Moon with an SVBONY SV205 and a 102mm refractor with AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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The SV205 is an 8 Mp, USB 3.0 camera with pixel vignetting. New firmware for the camera has enabled it to be recognised as a USB 3.0 device ...
Thursday, 12 December 2019

A China driven future Increase in Linux use for astronomy?

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It seems highly probable that Linux will rise in popularity in China, (a country with a population of 1.43 billions, the largest national po...
Sunday, 8 December 2019

Further maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, version 0.64.4

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Nicola has released a further maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux . This is version, 0.64.4. and was needed to resolve a rema...

Maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, version 0.64.3

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Nicola has released a maintenance release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux . This is version 0.64.3 This was necessary because of a fault in ...
Friday, 22 November 2019

Stacking multiple exposures of the Moon with a Bridge camera

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A Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ72 Bridge camera was fitted with a fairly high speed SD card (32 GB SanDisk Extreme 90/MB/s Class 10, U3, V30). Th...
Sunday, 17 November 2019

A new version of AstroDMx Capture for Linux

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Nicola has just released version 0.64.1 of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, including the Raspberry Pi version. The software can be downloaded f...
Saturday, 2 November 2019

Two generations of TRUST webcams head-to-head as solar-system astronomical imagers

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The two cameras to be compared are the TRUST WB-5400 megapixel webcam that I obtained early 2007 and the TRUST Spotlight Pro webcam that arr...
Monday, 28 October 2019

Ethernet over mains remote imaging with AstroDMx Capture for Linux and a Canon EOS 4000D DSLR

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An experiment with remote DSLR imaging with Ethernet over mains via powerline ethernet adapters. Our observatory is 20m from the house an...
Sunday, 20 October 2019

Python and the Moon

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A motor-focuser-adapted Bresser Messier AR 102xs f/4.5 ED refractor was placed on a Celestron AVx GOTO mount, and a DFK 21AU04.AS camera fit...
Tuesday, 15 October 2019

The SVBONY SV305... Where do I stand with this new camera

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The previous posts have indicated that the SV305 is a very capable camera with no apparent issues. When we finally get a Linux SDK it will b...
Saturday, 14 September 2019

M13 in a bright, moonlit sky with a Bresser Messier AR 102xs f/4.5 refractor and an SVBONY SV305 camera

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A motor-focuser adapted Bresser Messier AR 102xs f/4.5 refractor (see previous blog post) was placed on an HEQ5 GOTO mount, and an SV305 cam...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Motor focusing the Bresser Messier AR 102xs f/4.5 refractor

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The Bresser Messier AR 102xs f/4.5 refractor is a fast, ED, short tube refractor with a novel zero image shift hex-focus system with a helic...