Hi Darren,
The elongation of the moon and its shadow would seem to indicate that your capture times were a bit too long.
Have never had to use RGB spit as I have a DMK, if it does the job I assume it does ie; split your colour data from the ToUcam back into R, G & B channels, then it looks like when they were recombined in Astra Image that the channels were not quite aligned correctly. When you recombine in Astra Image it pays to use the zoom function, maybe twice, to make it easier to align.
Initially align the three channels on a Jupiter feature, not the moon.
Finish processing and save that image, then reload the three channels and recombine them again but his time use the moon as the alignment feature. Finish processing and save the second version and then open both of them in Photo Shop and copy then move the aligned moon onto the image that was aligned with a feature on Jupiter.
I recenty asked this question of how to fix the image with the missaligned Jup moons, I think on the Tips & Techniques forum and Mike gave a detailed descrpition of how he does it, which I found worked very well.
Hope this is of some assistance.
Regards
Trevor
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