Jupiter & saturn

AGMI · Post by **AGMI** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:44 pm

this is my first time photographing them without using hand (ok lah i jus tape the cam to the eyepiece...5mm plossl..) pls tell me how i can improve..thks

Post by **rcj** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:28 pm

i think you have done a good job, Allan. You can further improve of this by stacking multiple frames. Most planetary images would stack sometimes up to 700 frames within a short period to enhance the signal to noise ratio. Have you downloaded Registax version 2? It is a great freeware for this sort of thing. I have just purchased the Toucam II for planetary imaging, and hope to spend some time dwelling in this form of imaging.
Good luck!

AGMI · Post by **AGMI** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:22 am

stacked already...just that i forgot to fine focus :k-_-:

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:13 am

It's a good first effort!

Does your camera have a video mode? You might want to use the video mode to capture images.

For focusing, you can set your camera to infinity, then what I do is I use a clothes peg on my focuser to do fine adjusting. Works like a charm.

AGMI · Post by **AGMI** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:29 pm

uhh my mount no tracking so quite hard to track.....