Last night I took some images of Saturn using CCDSoft and the ST-i - it was a sequence of 100. I was using a 3x Barlow as well.
Each shot was 0.25 seconds.
A sample cropped image:
So, while I'm happy I managed to get something, I've got a couple of questions:
1. Was 0.25 seconds too long for the exposure? I should have looked more closely last night while I was doing this and tried a few different exposure times, but this Saturn imaging was not my main aim for the night.
2. Is it worth trying to combine these images together to see if anything better can be obtained?
3. Even if it's not really worth it, I may try combining as a learning exercise. CCDSoft saved these as 100 individual FIT files. What's the best way of handling this? I did some Moon imaging a while back with my 6D taking a video - Autostakkert processed that fine, but I'm not sure about these individual files.
Thanks for any help.