I cheated and stacked some separate stacks to make a composite image. Didn't have any detail of the clouds on the ones I've checked so far and this smooths the image out a bit.
Added the best of the single images. An animation showed differences between the images due to exposure and framerate, but little or no difference in the planet itself.
Cheers
Stuart
Last edited by rat156; 02-04-2009 at 09:30 PM.
Reason: Added image
Thanks. I was a bit concerned about the colour, looking at Bird's great pics, but then I saw the Hubble shots of the Titan transit, so they are supposed to be pastels. I tried to bring a little more colour out in the image, but It looked overprocessed.
The blue fringe is the hardest bit to get rid of, the skies down here have been terrible lately, a slow moving weather system giving us very smoggy skies, which I suspect are the cause of the problem.
Polar aligment is not important, it's irrelevant. You can do this Alt-Az or even untracked, though at long focal length it'll move out of frame pretty quickly.
Can't answer the eyepiece projection question, never tried it. I try and keep as little glass between the object and the CCD, cheap glass doesn't work at high magnifications, and expensive glass is, well, expensive.
