Tips to realise rather easily the necessary acquisitions for long time planet animations

For the time being, AstrosnapPro does not do at the same time local registration (selection of a zone of the live stream staying following the object) and autoguiding the mount. In any case for autoguiding with a webcam you generally need a second telescope.

I manage to both with 2 webcams and a single telescope ! How ?

What you need is (preferentially) a PC with 2 screens. You use one session of Astrosnap for acquisition, and in the second autoguiding is done by capturing the planet image on the first screen !

Below, details and illustrations ...

Update motor speeds (in Astrosnap I use values of 1000 instead of 15)
Don't overlook camera orientation
Don't use "result mode"
Configure autoguiding for signal lost.
Check that there is no dust on the captured zone (as it will not move as much as usual).

Take care of cables and obstacles as the telescope will turn a lot !
Save preferentially in JPG... an AVI will be unusable if anything wrong happen (Happened to me ... In that case use AVIREPAIR but with the same form of sequences, for 2 complete sequences)

 

This is the capture screen. You can see the local detecting zone in red and the "following" zone to be save in blue.

This is the autoguiding screen.You can see the autoguiding detecting zone in red

 

AstrosnapPro window

To make the final AVI:

Register each sequence with Registax3.
Reload results and in the stack window, save as maximum AVI.

Example :