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Thanks for all the comments!
Sharkbite - you're right, I had to take a lot of clips with the planet moving through the field of view.
I used avidemux to join all those clips into one long clip, and then edited that long clip to remove all the unusable frames (those that were obviously blurred, or not fully in the frame).
I then used a program called Castrator to centre and crop the resulting footage. Next I used Autostakkert to stack the images.
I did not use Registax to stack the images. I only used the wavelets function in Registax to process the stacked image from Autostakkert.
Finally I used image analyzer to adjust the white balance, contrast and brightness. I also sharpened and smoothed it.
All the above is in respect of the image in post 3 of this thread. I did far less post processing of this image than I did for any of the previous images that I posted.
At that magnification manipulating the dob mount so that Saturn drifted through the field of view was very very difficult. IIRC the longest usable clip was only 5 seconds, and most were shorter. There were very many clips of blank space!
Pinwheel - I don't have any settings for video on that camera (other than choosing what resolution it records in). I recorded it in the highest resolution available, 640x480 (at 20 fps), with 4x optical zoom.
Sharkbite - thanks for explaining the maximum magnification! I suppose that means the magnification was 1120x?
I'm looking forward to getting my first image of Jupiter!
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