[Zander]

thanks ingo and Ving for ur advice. i am yet to have a third attempt due to cloud and busy with schoolwork. but i have resently bought a tele vue 5x powermate off janoskiss (another ISS member) and it should be arriving on mon or tues. i am soo excited to test it out

Uch, i use a Youcam webcam, with a 12" dobsonian. and yeah, stacking is when u take a movie with the webcam and seperate the images and stack them with a program called Registax to enhance the image. i'm not sure about how you'd go about using an slr camera though. go to "projects and articles", and look at some articels under astrophotography, i'm sure you will find what help you need there.