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For plantetary shots to start out with Simon, definately the ToUcam. I took 250 shots with my canon 300D the other night and ditched the lot. I've found its a whole new ball game. You need short enough exposures to capture relatively still, clear images, yet long enough for the CCD to capture it.
I was trying Positive Eyepiece Projection with the canon with really long focal length and very slow f/ratio (I don't have the exact figures on me at the moment but somewhere round F10 m and f/50 - 100). Thought if I captured enough I could registax them. Unfortuanely my exposure times were too long, even keeping them to a minimum (1/10 sec) I couldn't get a still image. They were all blurred through atmoshperic motion. I was using the hacked firmware so I could use ISO 3200 and mirror lock up. I'll either have to shorten my focal length or use a longer focal length eyepiece. When I get home I'll dig up the details and post them if you're interested
Keep going with what you're doing. If I can suggest, open up your Saturn image in registax again, go to the waveletting page, open up the historgram dialogue box and using the blue slider on the right bottom, drag it to the left to reduce the blue in your image. I think You might be surprised at the change.
Clear skies
Paul
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