I was doing some stargazing last night, specifically looking at Jupiter. I was taking videos to stack on Registax with my camera, an Orion Starshoot USB eyepiece Camera II. I then had a crazy idea with interesting results.
My camera is equal to about a 5mm eyepiece. This gives me a magnification of 180x with my
I took a video before doing this, and saved it. then I tried my idea. I got it into focus as best I could. Then when I was done, I stacked both videos separately, then added them together.
This is the result side by side:
Now my question. What happened? Why does it seem like my no barlow picture of Jupiter has more detail than the barlow picture?
I am not really understanding this, can someone help me out?
Jared