[Mallycat]

Hello. Yet another newbie here and I would really appreciate some help. I recently purchased my first telescope (Meade LX200R 10") but haven't really had a chance to spend any quality time using it until this last weekend. Since daylight savings has ended and the rain has stopped (here in Sydney), I have been having fun browsing the skies. I also purchased a colour DSI 2 and pulled it out the box for the second time on the weekend. I have reviewed the Matt Taylor video and read the instructions, but I am not getting the results I would have expected. I just stuck with simply JPG images auto stacked to start with and went for about 25 images (as recommended by Matt Taylor).

I have attached a couple of screen shots to this thread. The first screen shot was when I used the auto exposure button. This seemed to over expose the photo. Then I tried some manual exposures and then a short exposure, but neither delivered a result that I thought was on the right track. The image (as per the attachments) were nowhere near as clear or defined as I could see in the eyepiece. I also struggled to get the focus right, at least in part due to problems with the exposure I think.

Can anyone give me any tips on what I am doing wrong. I seemed to have more success with Jupiter, although I don't really know why that was. I also didn't get results as good as I was expecting.

Hope someone can help.

Thanks

Matt