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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Hahaaaa  another convert to the dark side. 
Good onya middy. I think you've set a record here for the smallest aperture telescope used to capture Saturn  Here's a couple of tips that might help you for next time.
1. Do you have a tripod? If so connect it to the camera, extend the legs but don't spread them, use it like a monopod. If it's not high enough find something to stand it on. This will help heaps in keeping your camera steady.
2. Can you increase you ISO speed and reduce your exposure time. That will help alleviate some of the movement of the view brought about by turbulent seeing.
3. you didn't mention how you stacked them. If you haven't already then download Registax. It's free and great for this sort of work. Can you take videos with your camera? That might help you get more images to work with.
Great to see another budding imager. Go for it. You'll have a blast.  |
Thanks for the tips. I'd say that is the best I'll ever get from this scope. I was using the camera on a tripod. It was a lot of fiddling around but once it was aligned with the scope eyepiece I could leave the camera where it was for several minutes and just keep nudging the scope a little as saturn passed out of the field of view of the scope.
ISO was at 400 which is the highest I can set it on the 5 MP setting. If I lowered it to 1.1 MP I could get 800 ISO but I decided that would sacrifice too many pixels
The images were stacked in Photoshop using a manual and extremely painful method I found on the web somewhere. I have since tried with Registax letting it do everything automatically but my first attempt didn't look as good. Registax looks very complicated
and I haven't had time to play around with properly yet.