Nikolaos Bafitis avatar
Hello, I am planning on taking an image of Saturn with lucky imaging, autostakkert, and registax, but a unsure on how to actually take the video ( iso, exp, Barlow, lens, etc.).
Tony Gondola avatar
You're shooting afocally so it's hard to pin down the variables. You do want to use the highest shutter speed/frame rate you can get and whatever eyepiece or eyepiece+ barlow that gives you a decent image scale without killing the variables I mentioned above.
D. Jung avatar
I did this shot with a 30€ singlet; price was incorrectly assigned by Amazon . 90mm aperture with 500mm focal length and a 2x Barlow on a static photo tripod; attached my phone and recorded 2 minutes and processed with autostakkert.
It's really bad, but still impressive what you can do cheapo.
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