[Dennis]

And here's another one, taken later the same morning, but after Saturn had crossed the Meridian, so the Tak mount had to do a Meridian flip and almost tore the TouCam cable from the Notebook!

This time, I used the K3CCDTools software to auto grab 5 avi's, each of 210 seconds, at 4 minute intervals, and save them using the advanced file naming format in K3CCDTools. Meanwhile, at around 02:09am , I was upstairs having a cuppa!

This time, in Registax, I opened 2 of the best avi’s at the same time from the set of 5 giving a total of 4200 frames. Registax can handle up to 5000 frames apparently. Although I had the “Automatic” box checked to Align, Optimise & Stack without user intervention, after Registax had chewed its way through the first avi, it paused and politely asked me to place the alignment box on the 2nd avi before it ran through to the Wavelets phase.

C9.25.
X2.5 TeleVue PowerMate.
Philips ToUcam 840.
Captured via K3CCDTools.
10 fps.
1/25 sec.
4200 frames (x2 avi’s of 2100 each).
Processed in Registax.
1867 selected.

I was free wheeling so I had stopped taking screen captures and notes at this stage, hence I’m not sure of the Image Controls and Camera Controls settings, but from memory, as I was experimenting with the Brightness slider hard right, I think Gamma was more to the right and gain was hard left? Even though this one has more frames stacked (from 2 avi’s) the dreaded onion rings have reared their ugly heads.

The Cassini Division looks “sharper” than the previous effort.

Cheers

Dennis