Yeah I found that last night with the saturation - on the QC I had it up around 75% but needed to drop it down on the Toucam to reduce the over rich red washout look on Jupiter. I hear ya brother re: large image scale
I think the key to trying to get up towards Bird's level of definition for us with USB cameras using the gear we have already is preventing compression as much as possible -> using low fps, making sure captureing laptop/pc is in good health etc (defrag, minimal software installed etc) and also possibly temp control of the primary mirror/OTA would play a big part. Besides scope maintenance (tracking, collimation etc) I think thats about as much as we can do without buying new gear ..
