All these pictures of Mars were taken at prime focus with a 10 inch Meade LX200 GPS telescope and a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000.

These pictures were all created from 60 seconds long AVIs. The top 90 percent images were stacked - based on the quality as determined by the Registax freeware. Wavelet processing in Registax were also used. The pictures were then processed in Photoshop: contrast and cropping.

Picture of the crater Cassini (bottom left) and surrounding area on the moon.
Picture is the result of the top 90 percent frames (5 second long AVI, 10 fps) selected and stacked using Registax.
Picture taken on 8 June 2003 at 19:38

Picture of Archimedes, Spitzbergen Mountains and Aristillus and Autolycus (bottom and left center).
Picture taken on 8 June 2003 at 20:00.

Picture of Aristarchus taken on 16 June 2003 at 19:21. Top 90 percent frames selected in Registax - from a 15 seconds long AVI. 1/5 second exposure time per frame.

Lessons learned

• The first few day's AVI I took were hopelessly too short - around 5 seconds each. There were just not enough quality frames to make a good picture from.
• I only made one AVI of most of the features of the moon I wanted to create a picture from. I should have taken at least 3 to 5 AVIs of each feature and selected the best AVIs the next day.