[erick (Eric)]

Originally Posted by Nifty

..... The sky glow from Melbourne is variable Erik. Sometimes almost nonexistant: other times it looks like a fire 10k down the road! Depends on the weather.......

Sounds like you have fairly dark skies most of the time then. Lucky!

Originally Posted by Nifty

..... I see you use a Logitech webcam. Is that one of the latest ones? Some of the new ones have impressive specs but I wonder if they are OK for astronomy.....

I bought it back in mid 2007. I suspect it has been superceded now. I knew the Toucam was the best, but wanted whatever I could buy in the computer shop. The 4000 was available and I'd read it was a CCD device and not too far behind the Toucam in astro performance.

I haven't put enough time into it. I have been using the Logitech software and it doesn't give me control of the gain, a major problem. I've downloaded K3CCD software, but haven't installed and played with it yet.

All I have is some moon in fairly bright evening sky: - http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=25992