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Originally Posted by matt
Hi Rob...
While it is possible to take planetary shots with a DSLR...it's really not the 'weapon of choice'.
Others will chime in here with what settings are best when taking a single shot of planets with a DSLR, but I'll suggest you lay your hands on something like a ToUcam (webcam) hooked up to a laptop and combined with your telescope to capture small videos called AVIs.
You can then take the single frames from this movie and stack them in free software to produce a single image which can then be further worked on in your photo editing software of choice.
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Are there any reasons you couldn't achieve the same thing by either (a) hooking the EOS to your laptop and instructing it to take a few hundred sequential shots then stacking them? or (b) using eos-movrec to record an AVI from the live view stream from the EOS then processing that?
Would the higher resolution of the DSLR give any better final quality compared to the CCD in the Phillips webcam?
I have both a 1000d and a SP900NC and also would like to know which is superior for planetary use with both .jpg or avi.