First light with PD1 cam

[MarvinZ]

Last night (well early this morning) I had my first chance to get out with my new PD cam. I know now that I am on a steep learning curve and I am taking note of all the wise people here say, the flip mirror will be ordered later today.

I was fortunate to have an excellent view of Jupiter and managed to get a couple short videos and a few stills. I have run the video through RegiStax and this is the result. I am curious for any input, I was expecting to get more detail than just a white disk, and maybe I have something amiss.

Set up used was a Celeron NexStar 127 SLT and Phil Dyer Colour Astro Video Camera.

[shirva]

Pretty much what I got marvin .. Unfortunately weather was poor and never hot time to tweak settings.

[johnno]

Marvin,

 can you remember the settings you was using?  looks like it's over exposed, don't use any auto settings, only manual. and agc to off for planetary stuff. I think you need to start @ shutter speed 1/50 and work from there and don't try to get the moons in the image, just concentrate on Jupiter and see how it goes

[beamer3.6m]

If you have the moons your over exposed in general.

[Macavity]

See above.

But you will need to make adjustments to the gain, contrast, brightness (whatever) to see any details on the disk. If you are using Registax, you check the *histogram* of the image after stacking to see if you're getting things about right. I usually then make a coarse cut... stretch (add a little gamma maybe) at that stage, then save in a loss-less 16 bit format like .png for further post processing. 

[MarvinZ]

Thanks for the feedback will take it all on board and try what you have all suggested.

Thanks