For me the problem wasn’t the light pollution it was the “sun” because since it was early morning 5:30 the sun started to rise and, dimmed out the brightness of the planets .thus it was hard to find out the location of planets after each video,since I had a manual dobsonian .
Yes, it’s really difficult to keep the planets in this small fov. What I do is to have a very steady hand and let the planet move naturally in your fov, there is no other way. I neither have a motorized base nor an equatorial platform.
Here are my attempts from today on a very similar setup(GSO 8", ASI120mm mono, manually tracked).
I might start pursuing planetary imaging considering how hard it is to get clear skies for DSOs
Yea planetary is always way more difficult especially with manual work . These are great pics but you could have attempted with a Barlow . Here is mine from today - but today seeing was not great but I still managed to get some good pics