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When you are taking images even in quite good conditions the images will not appear perfect until you have stacked and processed your videos.
Go through a process of letting the scope cool down first, even as far as blasting the mirror with a domestic fan to help it; then collimate the scope; once you plug in your webcan try and achieve perfect focus; then evaluate the seeing and make sure you choose a night where there is very little wind - check sites like skippy astronomy weather for seeing forecasts; then once you have taken your video process is in Auto Staker 2 and other software.
Attached is a raw shot from one of my best Saturn's this year - this is what is looked like on the screen - it's does not look great on it's own - but when I stacked 1000 of these x 3 in Red, Green and Blue you can then see the result.
Only with something like the moon does what you see on the screen look more like the post processing result.
hope this helps - it takes time - so take your time and enjoy your imaging!
John K.
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