[John K]

Well my new Philips SPC900 arrived yesterday evening so I rushed home tonight and took my first images without any colour enhancement mods etc. just straight out of the box.

The moon images are approx. 100 frames simply prorcessed in Registax. No multi point aligning etc, I just aligned and stacked based on the centre of the best frame as taken with my 12.5" and 5 x Powermate. Seeing was around 6/10.

By the time I got to Jupiter seeing dropped to around 3-4/10! so the attached images are quite poor but I had to see how the camera would perform. Jupiter images are 300 frames were a quick stack and processing job in Registax. 20% Gamma, 50% Gain. The exposure slider on the software that comes with the camera does not tell me what the exposure is numerically (e.g. 1/20 etc). Any thoughts here?

So, do I think on initial inspection wether this camera is better than my old NexImage? Well based especially on the moon, my gut feel that it will possibly be around 30% better. On Jupiter it appears to definetely have less noise but need to play more with the settings and depending on the seeing.

John.