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Hi Craig
1. We will assume you have your camera mounted on your telescope
The telescope is on and tracking.
2. You have installed the camera software and the computer recognises the camera.
3. You will see nothing till you actually take a picture. What the picture appears as will depend on how long you expose it for. Its size will depend on the pixel count and your screen resolution. It is highly unlikely that you will see anything like published pictures because these are all processed to make them look good
4. If you point at the moon or Jupiter and set the camera to take multiple shots at a short duration you will probably get a live image but this will depend on how long the exposure is. Too long will wash everything out. Too short and you will get nothing but a black screen. You will need to read the manual and experiment.
5. If you are using a DSI or Lpi it can be set to take multiple images and stack them automatically with the supplied software. In this case suposing you take a sequence of image of M42 with say 20 sec exposures you should see some sort of a static color picture of M42 after about a dozen shots.
6. If you can get this far the rest is experiment till you are happy. If you can't get this to work read the manual and keep trying till you do.
7. However if you manage to get a picture of M42 you are in real serious trouble because you are hooked! It will cost you time and money from here on because you will never be satisfied with you equipment and results.
This may be over simplified but you need to find out for yourself by trying.
Barry
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