Saturn from 8" manual dob

[twin pebble]

Taken with 8" manual dob, ZWO ASI120MC-S planetary camera, and Orion 2x Shorty Barlow. Bad seeing. Titan chillin beneath the planet.

[astral fiber]

I'm thinking about starting planetary photography with an actual camera. I'm just worried about it being untracked. Can you tell me how it is?

[twin pebble]

it's a huge pain to keep the planet in frame with your hands for 3 straight minutes but it's possible and you can get good results with determination 😂

[astral fiber]

Does registax have a mosaic mode?

[twin pebble]

the hardest thing is achieving focus. You have to use your hands to keep the planet in frame, AND turn the focus knob to get sharp focus while the planet is darting around the screen and shaking due to touching the scope

[twin pebble]

idk

[astral fiber]

What did you use to stack?

[twin pebble]

Pipp for preprocessing and autostakkert!4 to stack

[astral fiber]

Does autostakkert! have mosaic mode?

[twin pebble]

idk what you mean by mosaic mode

no I don't think so

[astral fiber]

Like it lines it up the frames if it's in other places on the screen

Lines up the frames*

[twin pebble]

Pipp has an auto stabilization feature that finds all the frames that contain the planet and moves the planet to the middle of the screen. That has nothing to do with mosaics but it sounds like what you're describing.

[astral fiber]

On deepskystacker they call it mosaic mode Idk why but ik what an actual mosaic is

[astral fiber]

Thank God for pipp

[hexed shell]

Autostakkert automatically places the planet in the center of each frame