Right about now I am in the worst mood possible.
Here's what happened....
Last night the clouds cleared and left a night that any amateur astronomer would die for. No wind, No cloud, nice weather and good seeing! I had left the scope out to cool for a few hours and it all looked like it was going to be an amazing night. Everything was now set up and I was ready to start imaging.
To start off I captured around 6 AVI's of Saturn. When I was satisfied, I decided to see if I could capture one of my favourite DSO M104. This bit was all a bit of mucking around but what do you know... It was there on the screen the first time!
In between while the scope was moving I somehow changed the settings on the capture software so the camera was now compressing the AVI's.
I had absolutely no idea of this so I was happily shooting away at M104. I shot 4 AVI's of M104 and I now decided to go back and shoot a few more of Saturn.
By the time now the seeing had improved and I could easily see the Cassini Division and banding. I was really excited and captured a few more AVI's.
Then when I go through all of last nights work and the best of them were the last batch of AVI's I took (the compressed ones). My good friend Registax refused to open the AVI's.
So I was left with rubbish.
I give up...
What would astronomy be without of all of this?
It has me puzzled.
