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Good start Des. Is it the USB or firewire version? The DBK takes a little while to come to grips with, but it's one great camera once you do.
Don't be too concerned about light pollution with moon & planet imaging. It's more about transparency, seeing conditions & scope cool down more than anything.
I've had my best success re: the DBK by using it at 30FPS using the YUY2 + unspecified codec however if you want a smaller file size you can use Y800 +Y800 & debayer in Registax after the fact.
For colour balance, try previewing Jupiter using YUY2/unspecified, open up your histogram tab in RGB mode/linear/, (making sure exposure is at 1/30th & frame rate of 30) Leave gamma at default (100) adjust gain so the histogram shows just below 250 value on all 3, & then tweek your red or blue white balance sliders to obtain identical values according to the histogram. You'll find the green non adjustable for all practical reasons, but the red & blue need to be the same to get a good colour balance. Retweek your histogram to just below 250, making sure you have no highlight burnouts in the central region of Jupiter.
Are you using IC capture? If so, watch out for version 2.0 it'll cause you grief...Version 2.1 is a lot better.
Cheers.
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