[Dennis]

Hello

Well, last night (19th Nov) finally got first light with the C9.25 and ToUcam after weeks of cloudy weather in Brisbane. Quite a different process this avi stuff, compared to the LPI where you can see the results in "real time" as the final image is captured and stacked as you acquire the series.

I used an x2.5 Powermate. The original AVI was captured with the native Phillips ToUcam application. I then processed 500'ish frames using the automatic "Planetary Align" Wizard in K3CCDTools.

I tried Registax but was on the receiving end of an error message "Cannot decompress the avi" which prevented me from going any further.

I did note that the image scale with the ToUcam was significantly larger compared to the LPI. I presume smaller pixels on the ToUcam would cause this.

Exposure was 1/25 at 30 fps with "Outdoor" checked for whitebalance.

Edited: Added second image as processed in Registax after "cutting" the avi in Studio 9 to remove the corrupted frames.

Cheers

Dennis