Mars -Am I doing something wrong?

[harrythemartian]

hi all, just wondering if anyone could give me some advice on a bit of planetary imaging. 

So, I was out observing last night and I spent some time getting some AVIs of Mars with my 200p, using my Philips spc900nc webcam. 

I've since run them through rexistax, and this is the best I can get. 

I was using a (tracking) skywatcher 200p, and had the webcam through an Antares 3X barlow. 

I recorded at 60fps for about four minutes, so got about 13,000 frames, and i stacked the best 25% of frames (and pushed the wavelets up a little).

I've seen far better results with similar equipment, so am i doing something wrong, or is this all I can expect from my set up?

PS: i spent some time getting good focus on a bright star with a bahtinov mask, so i don't think its the focus. 

[oldpink]

mars is never easy to image, perhaps its more to do with conditions
your image is about the same as I get using my ASI with a 2x Barlow

[harrythemartian]

yeah could be. Ive always got similarly mediocre results with Jupiter too really. no fine detail, just blurr :/