....to all you guys. After my initial effort, I have a much better idea of what you are achieving!
Clouds finally cleared late Sat night so I set up in the back yard to get my stunning photos of Jupiter
with my 8" dob and Logitech webcam. A couple of hours later all I had to show were some out of focus avi's of a too bright or too dull Jupiter bouncing around in the field of view as I tried to get it well positioned to move through the FOV and brightness adjusted
. With the webcam adapter I finally obtained, I couldn't get enough in travel on the focusser. With the 2x barlow in place I just couldn't position Jupiter to have enough time to focus and adjust camera controls so didn't capture a single avi with the barlowed webcam! I figure I need two more people - one on the electric focusser and one on the camera controls while I wrestle with directing the scope using the finder!
Time to back up, behave myself and pay attention to Mike's advice:-
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.p...63,201,0,0,1,0
Going to afocal and start with the Moon. Oh well! Cannot bypass the apprenticeship, it seems, rightfully so I guess! Be patient, Eric!
ps. seeing was very poor - but Io's shadow during the transit was readily visible through eyepiece. I had hoped to capture that in an image.
pps. time to start work on that home made equatorial platform
