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k3ccd records avi's, you don't need FIT files. Load the avi straight into registax. Use version 1 trial version, no need for version 2 which is used for those doing serious Deep Sky imaging.
You can capture Mars for about 3-4 minutes before rotation will see image blurring at a given focal length of approx 6000mm, so at your small image scale, you could go for 5 minutes and you probably wouldn't notice rotation.
So go for a few more passes through the FOV and see if it gives you some more GOOD frames to stack. But don't stack more just for the sake of it - I always stacker fewer good frames, than more average frames. It's simple logic of course, but you'll get a better result as average frames will just blur the features. I've been known to stack as little as 20-50 frames for some of my dob work in the past. Hell, for some lunar images i've used single frames as the final result!
Yes, they were a bit noisy, but due to the bad seeing it gave the best result for me.
I'll shoot those barlows off in the mail tomorrow, hopefully you'll get them on Friday. It will give you a bigger image scale, but it will also double the frustration factor as the planet will drift through the FOV in half the time or less.
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