Aussie Dave

Cheers everyone. @Pete Presland yes high altitude, good seeing and should be able to resolve some more detail with better seeing although this season has been really bad where I am, the worst planetary season so far. Nothing but thick cloud, high level light misty cloud, jetstream, rain and wind. I may get a chance next week if the sky clears, fingers crossed.

Thanks Gina and MarsG76. I'm still playing around with images. This is the stacked image from the first and second video, layered and aligned manually.

There's the 2.5x PowerMate 1.25" Gina which I had for quite a while. There wasn't much difference I found from the PowerMate to my 2x Barlows which I have quite a few of including a couple of ED Barlows although conditions here aren't often great, plus I think the planets are very low in the sky for you there and will be for some years. You won't see a vast improvement, it will be minimal at best. I ended up selling my 2.5x PowerMate recently as it wasn't getting used. I'll just stick to my better quality Barlows for when seeing conditions are good or better while the planets are high in the sky here in Australia or not bother with them at all. I can not justify the new prices of them. If you were to buy one try and pick up a nice used one, at least then if you're not happy with it you can re-sell it and get your money back.

Jupiter at 9:48pm last night. Conditions good Mandurah Western Australia. Finally some decent seeing! This is the best I've captured this season from the South West of WA. Captured in SharpCap, Stacked in AutoStakkert 3, wavelets in RegiStax 6, edited in PaintDotNet. Image was resized in RS6 to 200% with the Mitchell filter, edited, then reduced to 80% of that size. I find this much better than using Drizzle in AS3! The second image is only a 2 image gif to try and work out what's noise and what's actual gas cloud detail and gifs are not the best way to show this. Each image was about 197kb in size and the two image gif is now 99kb. I'm rethinking my capture settings to try and get the best faint detail while reducing noise. I've dropped gain on the non cooled 224mc to 180, adjusted exposure to around 60 frames per second and dropped the time of the recordings to 2 minutes instead of 3 minutes. ZWO ASI224MC Saxon 8" Maksutov, fl 2500mm, f/12.5 SkyWatcher EQ6 Pro

@xtreemchaos busy with life Charl with my spare time being spent on AP and buying more stuff, just started DSO. Have been keeping an eye on the forum

I'm still working on Copernicus but the best I have so far is this. Captured with the ZWO ASI174MM camera, UV/IR cut filter and Celestron Nexstar 8i SCT.