Tuesday 24 April 2018

FITs files, AstroDMx Capture for Linux and a Bresser Messier AR-102XS ED, f/4.5 refractor,

Nicola has implemented FITs files in AstroDMx Capture for Linux. These are the first tests of this implementation.

A Bresser Messier AR-102XS ED, f/4.5 refractor, was mounted on a Celestron AVX, EQ, GOTO mount. A  QHY5L-ll-M camera was mounted at the prime focus and AstroDMx Capture for Linux, running on a Fedora laptop was used to capture Fits files with matching dark-frames. The FITs files were stacked in Deep Sky Stacker 4.1 running in Wine 3.5 and post processed in the Gimp 2.9.

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M65 and M66 in Leo, M51 in Ursa Major and M3 in Bootes were the objects imaged. 16 bit FITs images were captured throughout (12 bit images in a 16 bit FITs container).

20 x 30s exposures were captured of M65 and M66. 


30 x 45s exposures were captured of M51 


50 x 5s exposures were captured of M3.

A new release will be made when Nicola has added more functionality to the filter-wheel controls.