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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
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.
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Here's an image from a client's scope. Meade 12" LX200R, 2x barlow, same Phillips webcam. 4000 images at 1/60th sec each.
Whole different ballgame.
