Swansea Astronomical Society Blog
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Implementing Touptek cameras inn AstroDMx Capture
Nicola has almost completed implementing Touptek astronomical cameras in AstroDMx Capture.
A skymax 127, modified for motor-focus, was mounted on a Celestron AVX mount. A TOUPCAM GPCMOS0200KPF camera fitted with an SVBONY UV/IR cut filter was placed at the focus.
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Equipment used
We captured 5000-frame SER files of various regions of the 92.2% waxing Moon using AstroDMx Capture for Linux.
Screenshot of AstroDMx Capture, capturing a SER file of the Tycho region of the Moon
The best 25% of the frames from each SER file were stacked in Autostakkert! , wavelet processed in Registax 6 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10
Gassendi region
Sinus Iridum, Plato Region
Tycho Region
Mosaic of the Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis regions of the Moon
Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
M31, M32 and M110 galaxies
An Atik 320E on an EDF60 refractor, mounted on an iOptron EQ mount was used with AstroDMx Capture for Windows to capture FITS data on M31 and its satellite galaxies.
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In the image can be seen M31, M32 and M110
Chris Bowden
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Part of M31 with a Chromebook, an SV305M Pro and AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS
An SV305M Pro monochrome CMOS camera fitted with an SVBONY UV/IR cut filter was placed at the focus of an 80mm ED refractor and mounted on a Celestron AVX mount.
AstroDMx Capture for ChromeOS was used to capture 60 x 30s exposures of the central region of M31.
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AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS capturing data on M31
Final image of the central region of M31
Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin
Stars and Jupiter over Pennard Castle
Images with a z82 Lumix bridge camera
Jupiter over Pennard Castle 40s, ISO 80
Orion over Pennard Castle 50s, ISO 80
Cygnus region over Pennard Castle 50s, ISO 80
Chris Playle
Monday, October 11, 2021
Andromeda Galaxy and M57 with an Atik 320E and AstroDMx Capture
An Atik 320E on an EDF60 refractor, mounted on an iOptron EQ mount was used with AstroDMx Capture for Windows to capture FITS data on M31, the Andromeda Galaxy and M57.
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M31
M110 is also visible in this image.
M57
Thursday, October 7, 2021
Celestial Mechanics, Zoom lecture by Paul Spurr
Paul Spurr of the the Crewkerne & District AS gave a very interesting and informative talk on Celestial mechanics which was well illustrated and explained.
Paul Spurr
The talk was followed by a detailed questions session before Chris continued as usual by showing slides on recent Society activity together with some space news about William Shatner about to become the oldest person to visit the edge of space in a short journey on a New Shepherd spacecraft.
Recent activity by members of the society
William Shatner to go to space
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Jupiter over Loughor Bridge
Jupiter over Loughor Bridge taken last night with my Panasonic z82 Lumix camera settings were 60s exposure and ISO 80.
Chris Playle
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Sunset at the Worm's Head
Sunset at the Worm's Head taken with my Panasonic z82 Lumix bridge camera
Chris Playle
Friday, September 24, 2021
Observing session at the Brian Stokes Cygnus Observatory Sept 23rd
Present were: Howard Davies, Simon Helan, Jeff Zorko, Jonathan Gale and Chris Bowden
Chris Bowden
Sirius and part of Orion over Pennard Castle near three cliffs
Sirius and part of Orion over Pennard Castle near three cliffs, taken with my Panasonic z82 Lumix bridge camera. Settings were 30sec and ISO 80.
Chris Playle
Thursday, September 23, 2021
The Moon with a Chromebook, AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS and an SV305M camera
A Skywatcher Star Discovery 150mm, f/5 Newtonian was mounted on a Star Discovery AZ GOTO mount and an SVBONY SV305M Pro was placed at the Newtonian focus.
The Star Discovery scope and mount used
A Lenovo Chromebook S345 with 4GB RAM and a 64GB eMMC drive and an AMD A6 CPU was used for capturing lunar data. The Chromebook was running Crostini with Linux and had installed all of the software needed to capture and process the data.
AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS was used for capturing. It should be noted that at the time of writing, the only cameras that will work in Chrome OS are the SVBONY SV305 series of cameras. At this stage we don’t know whether it will become possible to use other makes of camera in Chrome OS like this, or indeed, whether future updates of Chrome OS might break its present capabilities.
AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS was used to capture 1000-frame SER files of three, overlapping regions of the Moon covering the terminator side of the 98.5% waxing Moon, but not the whole lunar disk.
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AstroDMx Capture for Chrome OS capturing a SER file of the Plato/Sinus Iridum region of the Moon.
Final image of the Plato/Sinus Iridum region
Final image of the Copernicus/Kepler region
Final image of the Tycho region
Hugin Panorama Creator was used to align and stitch the three panes of the terminator side of the Moon into a mosaic.
Steve Wainwright and Nicola Mackin
Thursday, September 9, 2021
Crazy interstallar rockets; Zoom talk by Dr Julian Onions
Dr Julian Onions talked to the Swansea Astronomical Society via a Zoom Meeting.
He gave a thorough, detailed, fascinating and informative lecture on the many types of rockets, mainly based on present, existing technologies, whereby spacecraft can be propelled through space, some at significant fractions of the speed of light. The lecture ranged from solid fuelled rockets through to theoretical warp drives. The lecture was well attended and was followed by lively discussion.
Howard Davies followed with a short talk on the Noctilucent Clouds he has observed this summer
Chris Bowden then showed a selection of images recently obtained by members of the Swansea Astronomical Society
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