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Mars is bright and big already. Get out there and image now for practice at least. You want high frames per second with a histogram around 60%, gain as low as possible. Set a cropped Region Of Interest like 640x640 or less if you have steady tracking to gain fps. capture 3min SER video. capture another. and another and another. each ser file should contain a few thousand frames and will drop into autostakkert to process, if you go beyond 3min you risk mars rotating during that time and reducing your chance of getting sharp feature details. 3min is a good rough guide NOT an exact number. Recording to a SSD is faster and more reliable (less dropped frames) than to a HDD. saturn is also up there ahead of mars so practice on that with same advice above.
Chris, your gear is more than enough to get great planetary images. Any zwo imager will be fine and pretty much any scope really, barlow optional. Dont bother asking just get out there and image!
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