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Old 25-08-2016, 09:51 PM
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You have an excellent opportunity to take some videos of the Planets and process them into images!
If you have a barlow lens to add some magnification, that is a huge bonus.
But even if you don't, slot in an eyepiece, 10mm say, butt the lens up to the eyepiece, use your camera's zoom to zoom in. Not too far though, maybe 20x and shoot some short videos. If 10 seconds is all you can manage, so be it, but 30 seconds would be better.
To process you may have to convert your video into .avi format. I use "any video converter"
Drop the .avi into "Autostakkert" and let it stack the video into one image.
Get the saved file from Autostakkert and open it in Registax6 and apply sharpening wavelets.
Finally, grab the saved file from Registax and do some final tweaking in photoshop.
Any Video Converter, Autoskakkert and Registax are free to download.

PS. It's sometimes easier to adjust your focus on the telescope than fiddling with your cameras focus.
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