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It looks like you zoom at 10X is an interpolated zoom and not an optical zoom. Is this the case?
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According to the camera, it has 10X optical zoom and 500X digital zoom. I'm not really up with all the zoom methods, but I assume after 10X zoom the camera's actual mechanics stop moving and the pixel size seems to increase instead (hence why the image on the right is madly pixilated. Then again, I knew it wouldn't be a sharp crisp image, I was just testing the image scale I could get straight from the camera).
The image on the left used about 14X zoom and the image on the right was about 44X. So they both should be 'overpixilated', but the one on the right should be even more so (based on my understanding of it). Does that sound right?
As for the appropriateness of using the camera zoom, I've never thought about using an eyepiece with a lower focal length... because I've never thought of using the camera (which has an almost 2" lens) with a 1.25" eyepiece! But it seems like that might actually work... I'm definitely going to test it next time I get down to my scope! (I was limited to my 2X barlow and 2" 32mm eyepiece).
And thanks for the confirmation on how to calculate magnification! I'm glad I haven't been talking complete rubbish when labeling it on my previous images
I hope what I wrote above makes sense! I'm not the best at explaining what I have going on in my head!
