Ahhhhhhh.... OK, my bad
I was thinking that the camera equipment was attached to capture as per the human eye so including the magnified light where as you are saying it is just collecting the available light (off the mirror and throgh the barlow). Guess I need to read up on FL v's magnification.
Any chance I could have a single frame or for you to show a full image? Just interested to see how big Saturn is in the full megapixel image. I am guessing not much of the raw image is saturn yeah? So in effect the magnification is applied post capture via the cropping etc?
As for me, I have been using between 166 and 250x (mostly 9mm and sometimes 6mm) and they are nice and crisp (but lacking detail). Throw in the barlow then I have issues tracking (no doubt will get better in time) and the image isn't crisp.
Gotta say a few hours every second night for a few months sounds pretty hardcore
At the moment I have been mostly observing from the back deck thus the low angle (although it has certainly been easy) but I will (as you have said in the other post) start looking to plan targets and times etc. and part of that planning will be optimal positioning etc.
Fun stuff
