Nice work Gordon, excellent result for your first attempt! You'll be amazed at the difference with a Toucam, you'll be a pro in no time.
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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
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Webcam's can't do long exposures to be able to do galaxies and nebulas, but you can get your ToUcam modified to be able to take long exposures. If you buy it from Telescopes&Astronomy in SA, they will do it for you for an extra cost of course.
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does registax work with mpegs too
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No, but you can convert your mpeg to avi - that's what I did when I used my digicam's "movie" mode to take some afocal movie of Saturn. Use VirtualDub or Bink&Smacker to convert the mpeg to avi.
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I now need to learn more about enhancing pictures.
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Yah, capturing is the easy part
Although there is trial and error in the settings you capture with. You'll probably find that the old webcam you're using doesn't have enough manual control over the settings. The ToUcam will give you the control over the settings.
You should also get K3CCDTools version 1 to capture your avi's, it's a nice little tool and it's free.
As for processing, I hope you don't mind, but I did a little post-processing on your image to enhance it and try and bring back some natural colour.
I'm happy to explain the hows and whys, but post-processing is a lot of trial and error and takes up more than twice the amount of time you spent capturing the avi's!