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Hi,
Finally got my webcam tonight and took some video of Jupiter and the moon with my 10" dob + 2x barlow with wxastrocapture. I found that the webcam focuses with no barlow about where my dslr does, but with a barlow it is over an inch further out. Great fun when the clouds weren't in the way. Hard to focus though - a motorised or 10:1 focuser would help. I also spent some time fiddling with exposure settings etc to dim things down a bit.
I've got no idea how to process this stuff, but here is an image stacked in Registrax using default settings. This looks fairly similar to the movie which was just a few seconds long as Jupiter passed through the field of view of the dob.
Anyway, hope this helps those still considering buying one of these.
Cheers
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