Wondering about guiding on Jupiter.

[Cloengaa]

As I use my Phillips SPC900 to take movies of Jupiter, I was thinking.

Is it possible to have the webcam actually guide on Jupiter while taking the movie ?

SO even though the webcam is capturing film it will at the same time autoguide the mount ?

[Merlin66]

No, don't think so.

The guider "software" needs to use the "live" image...then it's not available for imaging!!!

[Cloengaa]

Yeah that is what I am thinking too..allthought when capturing AVI the view is live hehe

[GlassWalker]

http://windowsillobservatory.wordpress.com/daves-solar-system-recorder/

The above appears to claim to guide and image from a single camera, but I haven't tried it yet...

[Dipper]

Unless you haven't polar aligned why would you need to guide Jupiter? It shouldn't move too much in the field of view. And there is a program called Castrator that recognizes a planet and crops it from all the frames of an AVI file and produces another file with Jupiter (or be it Sun, Moon, Saturn) at the center.