Holy crapola, I've never done planetary imaging before, this was just a whim. I didn't even get to use my hi-res camera, and I was looking over the neighbor's roof at about 40 degrees, so probably terrible seeing.
But...the "new" software and techniques make it easy! 30 frames per second, collect afew thousand frames in a video, then free software analyses the video, extracts the sharpest frames, and stacks them. Like, it took me about 15minutes to download, learn and run the software. Again, I've never done planetary work before, and this is FAR from optimal equipment. It's not even the best stuff that I have.
So, here's 2500 frames at about 33 milliseconds each, aligned, stacked, normalized, and a simple sharpening algorithm applied. Orion/vixen 102mm f/9.8 refractor, no-name 3x barlow I picked up in a package somewhere, Phillips SPC900nc webcam converted to an astrocamera (also picked up for free in a package), AVX mount, SharpCap software to take the video, Autostakkert software to stack. Image scale is 0.38"/pixel. Images shown are 280x280 pixels.
