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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Without knowing what your settings are Andrew, here are what I would have likely used for saturn with the ToUcam and an 8" SCT.
Tick your white balance box on the second tab.
Exposure: 1/25
Frame rate: 10 fps (if you need to go to 15 fps then that's fine, it'll be harder to get the image bright then, but if that's the case then the seeing probably isn't going to give you a good image anyway)
Gain: 50-60% (you can go higher but then you really start to fight the noise in processing)
Brightness: again keep to 50-60%
Each time you make an adjustment, wait a second or two to allow the autowhite balance to catchup.
If it still isn't very bright you can start to raise you gamma then, but I found that with Saturn too much gamma caused the center of the disk to burn out in processing.
Once you have your image as bright as you can with these setting, adjust your saturation til the colour looks about right. (Try to avoid too much noise and over exposure through gain and gamma, you can always ram it up a bit in processing if its dark, but there is little you can do if its over exposed.)
Now untick your auto white balance and start your capture.  Easy huh!  |
Thanks for that info. You forgot to mention the part about keep nudging the Dob while trying to make all these adjustments.
Will give it a go tonight hopefully.