I have been dying to try out my new QHY5 guide camera with a bit of planetary and lunar image stacking. I've heard they give great results and I also wanted to put my 8" ritchey chretien to the test. Being a specialised scope for deep sky imaging I wasn't sure how well it would perform. I'm happy to report that it performs quite well. Below the result of two 2sec videos, stacked and stitched (stacked in registax, stitched in Photoshop)
As you can see, some dust on the telescope mirror did show up. Nothing a few flat frames won't fix, though. Next time I'm going for the whole moon!
OTA: 8" Ritchey Chrétien
Camera: QHY5
Mount: HEQ5
Exposures: 2x2sec .avi video
Processing: Registax
Post-processing: Photoshop
Processing: Registax
Post-processing: Photoshop
