Hello All
Well I finally got around to trying my hand at digital imaging with the C8. I haven't as yet purchased the ToUcam but a family member gave me an old Kodak webcam which I managed to modify to fit over the weekend. I took the attached picture of Saturn on Monday night. It certainly doesn't represent how wonderful Saturn looked through the eyepiece and most certainly it is not as fine as many of the images on this forum but a worthy result for my first attempt. I have to admit that the computer was a little unstable with the windows video capture software which crashed about 3 times during my testing but at least I managed something. The whole process though is certainly much easier than using film. I now need to learn more about enhancing pictures. I downloaded a free copy of Registax software but find it a little daunting at present but am sure it will become easier with experience. I also bought a copy of a book cvalled Video Astronomy and was amazed to see that some video cameras can take pictures of faint things like nebula and galaxies!
I'm not sure if this is possible with webcams but for now, the planets are a good enough starting point for me. Lots of reading and experimenting ahead no doubt.
Going digital
Gordon