Well after 79 days of waiting it finally arrives my Siebert 1.25" 3x Barlow. These images were taken at about 10am on the 26th of July, 2006
OKay #1 is of an approximate naked eye view looking SE from my backyard. I have magnified a small portion of it to show what I am taking a pic of
used 3mp mode on Fuji finepix S-7000.
#2 is of the object through my TAL-1 4.3" f7 scope. Taken with a Phillips Toucam 840K, 10 second AVI, reprocessed in registax and colour corrected, aligned horizontal and colour corrected in Paint Shop Pro.
#3 is tha same view as above, processed the same too, but I have added the Siebert 3x Barlow. What a difference . and excellent resolution with no CA visible.
The magnification of the Barlow I worked out to be 3.0506329113924050632911392405063 times, Give or take a few decimal places.
Ooops forgot to add that the images through the telescope have not been resized with software, they are as-is off the toucam which was 640x480 resolution. Only editing was straigtening of the powerlines to make them the same. Which resulted in a cropped image. So what I saw on the laptop is the same as what you see here. Image looks a little blurry because the thing was moving about in the wind and heat refraction was affecting it.