Hi there! I have just realised the error in the title of the thread. Of course I am not very experienced! I am very INexperienced
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Peter, I am glad the camera got to you quickly safe and sound. I am already missing it.
Thank you ZeroID for the encouragements. If I can help newbies like me avoid the mistakes I have made, great!
Ballaratdragons, it was astronomy or that nice red convertible middle-aged men sometimes lust on. My wife's happy with astronomy
On a more serious note, reading an article on modding webcams in Projects and Articles section gave me an idea yesterday. I had a old disused Logitec 3000 and decided to have a go at it. I followed David Childs' instructions to the letter. And even if it wasn't the same model, I manages to open the case,take the lens off, close the case and stick a 1.25" plastic tube to the it (a film container). It took me 15 mn to do the job. The tube fits the 1.25" focuser adaptor perfectly. The problem was that neither ICapture nor Firecapture would recognise the webcam. At that point, I thought "that's it, I have wasted my time". Then by chance I downloaded a nice little program call Sharpcap, which luckily did recognise the camera. It first I couldn't focus, but once I have shorted the scope by one inch (like for Peter's DMK), I achieved focus. The Moon was out (very bright though, about 80%) and, to my amazement, I could get a picture! I took about 10 videos of 10 to 20 seconds each, trying to keep my lunar points of references steady on screen. I have processed one of them. The result is attached. Not great but better than I expected from an old webcam that I was going to throw away!
I think beside the poor quality of the camera, I have no idea about how to use Registax. But with those AVIs, I can experiment until I understand how it works.
Cheers,
Eric