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thank you Chris
Thank you too Chris - I'm one of these funny fellas that can't just "do" things; I've got to have a bit of an understanding of what I'm doing before and as I go along - it makes it a bit more (sometimes a lot more) difficult but it's much more worthwhile in the end: I'm sorta saying I've got to really understand "why" as I'm doing things to really get a handle on them.
Looked at your images again and could definitely discern one of the surface belts on Saturn: verified by it being quite clearly noticeable in each of the "flipped" images - no Cassini yet, but I'm sure it's coming!
I'm slowly moving towards imaging; I have a definite project with a modded DSLR and wide angle lens (not using a scope) to take various exposures and do some stacking; hoping even to justify the costs of getting the equipment - but in the meantime I'm thinking I've got one of these Pansonic mini-dvd recorders and maybe I should have a go at your methods.
Pity I didn't take the one with the Leica lens and not let my sister have that one (my very old man went a bit funny and bought 2 of them: he used to be a camera man and got it into his head to get them whilst his brain was in neutral, and we couldn't return them afterwards.)
How was the focussing - I guess it was difficult with the camera's screen: might sound silly but would throwing a dark cloth over your head like those old-time photographers help image brightness/contrast on the screen for focussing purposes?
Maybe using a shorter fl ep might be worth a trial too? Smaller image but increased brightness trade off could have some benefits? Now that I'm typing this post I can't recall whether you listed the exposure times?
Think I'll go in, get the camera and rummage in my shed for something to make an adaptor out of.....
Cheers, Darryl.
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