[asimov (John)]

If seeing is "absolute rubbish" then drop the 5FPS...5FPS in crap seeing is absolutely worthless. Goto 10FPS. 50% brightness 100% saturation 0% gamma 50% gain to start with. Not sure what else to suggest for settings (yet)

Alter exposure setting until its not too bright, not too dark. If you cant find a happy medium there, go your nearest quickest exposure, which should be slightly darker than what you would like. Bump up the gain slowly until it looks ok, but not too bright. Bump the gamma to 10-15% <<(optional) Capture 1000 frames! (100 secs) Take it to registax, use the default classic method/85% lowest quality. If you get more than 350 frames + in the stack, use waveletts 6 @ 70% 5 @ 40% No other waveletts!<<(user pref. here depending how many in stack! Lower 6 & 5 accordingly)Touch nothing else! Take it to PP save the BMP as a JPG (& do nothing else)....Record all settings, post the bloody thing.