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Originally Posted by OzStarGazer
OK, I couldn't resist and I just tried the microscope webcam. It seems to work fine with the telescope too. I could see the leaves very clearly, but they were moving a lot!
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OK, last night I woke up at about a quarter to 4 and there was a beautiful moon in front of my balcony.
So I quickly grabbed the computer, the microscope webcam and tried to take some pics. Of course (my usual luck!) after the second picture the moon almost completely disappeared behind a thick haze....
Anyway, I have noticed that
1) Unfortunately the whole moon didn't fit it (not even with a focal reducer, which I quickly tried), but I expected that;
2) In the first two pics before the haze a part of the moon is overexposed. I usually manage to avoid this when taking pics in afocal mode by moving the camera a bit, but this was not possible with the webcam, and reducing the exposure would have made the visible craters dull...
3) After that as I said the moon almost completely disappeared behind a thick haze and although I still managed to take a couple of pics they are pretty dark and more out of focus than the first two pics.
All in all I think relatively good results can be achieved with this webcam if the weather is favourable.
Recording a video would have probably been better, but I could not because of the haze. So next time...