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Thanks Guys for the comments.
Matt, the colours seem more natural in the 9.25, I am not sure whether this scope is better than the LX200. Although, the collimation on this scope could do with a tweek or two. That would certainly raise the performance. it does have the potential to eek out some good images. Maybe I have just got better each session. My processing is better than late last year.
Davo I stayed up for Saturn, but got clouded out. The cloud bank was very thin at first and I quickly snapped off an avi, but the blue channel was over exposed and the end image was not good. In fact when I did the RGB shift blue went way north and red went way south. Looked like a 3D image. I now know where in the sky it is at 2.30am. So maybe next week it will be a little higher and easier to image. As for Jupiter, this time last year I was getting up at 4am and imaging until dawn. So in three weeks time while on holidays I will aim to get some preliminary images of Jupiter.
ASI (John?) yes I do go pretty hard on 6 and 5 wavelets and frames is the key. The smoothest images come from nights of reasonable to good seeing and at least 700 or more frames stacked. Most of my Mars images this year have been at least 300-400 frames stacked. This latest lot are over 700 frames out of 2000. This luxury does not exist for Jupiter though. 80 seconds max at 5 frames a second does not get a lot of frames. Thats why I have to go to a camera with no compression and can belt out the frames like no tomorrow. Also I am running the colour moded raw version of Toucam. This helps in getting smoother images. Frames are the key.
Anthony, yeah teething problems for sure, but one thing for sure is that the cat cooler works really well. Like you always say equilbrium is one of the keys. Glad I got the device. As for the focusor, it seems to be on too fast a setting. So I need to have a little read and play to slow it down. Thanks for your positive comments.
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