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Old 25-10-2010, 09:28 PM
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Looks pretty good to me logan, really nice job. Some more image scale would be good, perhaps a 3x TV barlow. With it the greater the distance from the top surface of the barlow to the chip in the camera the more magnification your get, you can use extension pieces to great effect. Most important things are the collimation of your scope, focus and temp of your primary. If you have a fan on your primary running it for an hour or so before you image will help.

Also helps to rotate your camera so that the movement of the planet in RA is parallel with the long axis of the frame, that will make it easier to track.

There have been some really nice planetary images come from the venerable old Phillips webcams.

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Trevor
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